Alexander, the former principal of the school in Krynki, headed it until approximately 2018. He was convicted of "assisting extremist activity" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open institution.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
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Entrepreneur, director of one of the advertising firms.
Trial outcome date unknown
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Ivan most recently worked at Belenergo, installing and configuring fiber-optic networks and communications.
Ivan is a very active Telegram commentator. From 2019 to 2025, he left over 50,000 messages in open chats. Most of them weren't political—he discussed technology, offering professional advice on editing and network tools. However, he also wrote about politics. Kochanov supported the movement for free elections and condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, he criticized Europe and NATO, spoke out against the persecution of Belarusians abroad and repression, as well as against repression for the Russian language in Ukraine, as this "incites aggression."
He was convicted for comments in a chat room deemed extremist and for participating in protests in 2020. Two weeks after being transferred to the penal colony, Ivan was charged with a second criminal case related to the "Belarusian Gayun" chat room and was again transferred to a pretrial detention facility.
Trial outcome date unknown
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Final verdict by partial addition:
5 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Evgeny is a native of Orsha, winner of the Republican Olympiad in history and a graduate of the history department of BSU.
In 2020, he was detained and beaten during protests in Minsk, after which he was fined for "participating in an unauthorized event."
In 2022, he was charged again under the same article: a court in Orsha sentenced him to 15 days in jail for a photo on social media featuring a Pahonia T-shirt.
In 2025, a new criminal case was opened against him, allegedly for filming the movements of military equipment, and he was sentenced to restricted freedom with direction.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
She holds Russian citizenship. She was detained onApril 23 , 2025, and her home was searched the same day.She was detained inconnection witha criminalcaseinvolving messages posted to the "BelarusianGayun " bot .
Yaroslava is originally from Rogachev. At some point, she moved to Mozyr, likely right after graduating from university.
In recent years, she worked as a teacher in a village school. She taught German at the Moiseevskaya Basic School in the small agricultural town of the same name. She also served as a teacher organizer.
Trial outcome 09.09.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 04.11.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Alexey was initiallysentenced toadministrativearrestunder Article19.11of the Code of Administrative Offenses . A criminal case was then opened under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (assistance to extremist activity).
Alexey Kaidash worked in Mozyr as a professional photographer, taking wedding, children's, portrait, portfolio, and menu and catalog photos.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years of imprisonment in colony under special regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
administratorof roadViberchatsabout the trafficsituationin Rechitsa and Gomel.He was detainedatthe end of March 2025.Heworkedfor Belorusneft.
"The GUBOPiKtook it from the house harshly . They are slappingArticle 361 [ note : probablythey are talking about Article361-4ofthe Criminal Code ] for photos ofRussianequipmenttakenin 2022 ," a source told the publication "Flagstock".
Detained in early May 2025 in the "Gayun case" - for transmitting data to the "Belarusian Gayun" telegram channel about the movement of military equipment.
Trial outcome 20.11.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Oleg Loiko, an evangelical pastor from the Khoyniki district, is accused of transmitting information about the movement of Russian military equipment through Belarus.
48-year-old Oleg Loiko is the pastor of an evangelical Christian church in the village of Nebytov in the Khoyniki District. Last December, he was arrested for 10 days for "spreading extremism."
The pastor spent many years rehabilitating people with drug addictions through the "Return" mission. Thanks to his work, hundreds of people have returned to normal lives. He has previously received numerous glowing reviews from state media.
A church minister was sentenced to three and a half years in a maximum-security prison for providing information about the movement of Russian military equipment to the Belarusian Gayun monitoring project. The trial was held behind closed doors.
Pastor Oleg does not admit that he committed crimes and considers his conscience clear before God.
He was re-sentenced in October 2025.
Trial outcome 20.08.2025
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal date unknown
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In December 2024, he was convicted of distributing, producing, storing, and transporting information products containing calls for or promoting extremist activity. In April 2025, he was arrested again, this time on charges related to political persecution.
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