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She was convicted on several political charges. While in pretrial detention, she suffered a stress-related stroke, which left her almost completely blind. Despite this, Olga was sentenced to four years in prison.
Olga has a teenage daughter who was sent to a boarding school, her eldest son is in the army, and Olga also has a mother who is a Group 1 disabled person and is bedridden.
As of spring 2026, Olga is free. In March of that year , she was transferred from Correctional Colony No. 4 to Pretrial Detention Facility No. 1, after which information emerged about her release. Whether this was a pardon or a release for health reasons remains unknown .
Elena is accused under Part 3 of Article 361-1 (creation of an extremist group or participation in it) of the Criminal Code.
The case is presumably related to "yard chats." As a reminder, in the fall of 2024, a wave of arrests swept across Belarus's regions in connection with yard chats that were allegedly "attempting to organize." Around the same time, the KGB designated a number of yard chats as "extremist groups": "Zlye Kogtiki," "Sukharevo," "Senica2.0," "Solidarity," "Volnyya Vauki," "Navagrudskiya Partisany," "VILIYA," "Skromnye Matryoshka," and "Sosedi."
It is known that Elena is free , but the sentence for the political article , the place where she will serve her sentence , and the date of her release are unknown due to the closed judicial system in Belarus.
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Alesya was found guilty in August 2025 in a criminal case opened under the article "creation of an extremist group or participation in one" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the spring of 2026, having fully served her sentence.
It is known that the woman worked as a librarian, and in the last year before her arrest, she worked in the system of municipal utilities of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
People who met Irina in prison reported that she was taking her arrest very hard. She said her family and friends had turned their backs on her. Furthermore, Irina suffered from serious health problems: court hearings even had to be interrupted because she was becoming ill.
According to calculations, she was supposed to be released in the spring of 2026.
A construction worker by training, he graduated from School No. 61 in Baranovichi and went to Russia to work. Upon returning to Belarus, he became a member of the "For Freedom" Movement.
In 2020, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail, despite asking the judge to fine him. In 2025, he was sentenced to prison for participating in the 2020 protests.
He was released in early 2026 .
Natalia Yaroshenko is the sister of former political prisoner Lyudmila Goncharenko. She spent 147 days in the Gomel temporary detention center, and then she was deported to Ukraine with a ban on entry to Belarus for five years. During her imprisonment, the woman was also interrogated by the KGB, forced to admit that she had filmed Russian military equipment. Natalia had to undergo a polygraph test, the results of which she was never informed of. "But I really didn't film anything, I didn't do anything," she says.
According to Natalia, she spent six days in a punishment cell. There was nothing there except for high bunks knocked together from planks, a washbasin and a toilet. "I felt sick. They called a doctor - I had high blood pressure," Natalia recalls. After that, she was returned to a regular cell. In the temporary detention center, Natalia, according to her, a vein burst in her leg, the woman asked for a month to be taken to the hospital. For almost five months of imprisonment, the interviewee did not have any walks or parcels.
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Orthodox priest. He is the father of 6 children, was forced to leave the country with his family. Currently a refugee in France, he serves Orthodox Belarusians in Paris. Member of the Christian Vision group from its very foundation.
On September 18, 2020, he was detained, the Sovetsky District Court of Gomel (Judge Alexander Mokhorev) imposed an administrative penalty on him in the form of 10 days of administrative arrest under Part 1 of Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for holding a meeting, rally, street procession, demonstration, picketing, or other mass event). On September 28, 2020, Archpriest Vladimir, immediately after serving his sentence according to the court of September 18, was again subjected to an administrative penalty in the form of 15 days of arrest under the same article by the same court, in the same composition.
Thus, in total, Archpriest Vladimir Drobyshevsky spent 25 days in prison continuously. In the temporary detention center, his pectoral cross and cassock were taken away from him. The Investigative Committee continued to put pressure on the priest.
In prison, he was deprived of the right to correspondence, phone calls, medical supplies, clothing and food parcels, etc.
On March 28, 2026, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
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He was arrested in September 2024 and convicted twice under administrative law (Part 2, Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus). A criminal case was subsequently opened. He was most likely held in Pretrial Detention Center No. 6 before his trial.
After graduating from university in 2010, he joined the police. He served as a district police officer and in the juvenile affairs inspectorate. He rose to the rank of senior lieutenant and was dismissed at the very end of 2014. The reason given was "due to misconduct." He then set up a business as a sole proprietor and engaged in logging.
When exactly the trial took place and how it ended is unknown. Strizhich likely received a prison sentence (on political charges).
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2026.
She was released in the summer of 2025, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
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It's unclear exactly when Marina was detained, but she last appeared on social media in mid-October 2024. Her extremist listing indicates she is currently serving a sentence, meaning she either received a probationary sentence or a prison colony. However, judging by the fact that she hasn't appeared online since her trial, it's likely Marina Luts was sentenced to a prison colony.
From 2014 until the end of 2022, she ran her own business organizing weddings and other events. In 2023, she retrained as a UX/UI designer, working primarily as a freelancer. Marina has a young son.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the summer of 2025.
Before his arrest, Anatoly was a sole proprietor and an active participant in the entrepreneurial movement. He is also known as an environmental activist during the construction and launch of the Svetlogorsk bleached pulp plant, which emitted numerous harmful emissions into the atmosphere. He recently worked for an auto repair company.
He wasarrested in April 2025 under Part 2 of Article 367 (slander against Lukashenko) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. On April 25, 2025, he was transferred to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 3.
He was previously detained on February 14, 2023. He was also detained in 2020. Then, in November, he was detained after a memorial service in memory of Raman Bondarenko, who was killed in Minsk. Anatoly was fined 40 base units. Even earlier, Zmitrovich was held administratively liable under Article 23.34 (violation of the procedure for holding mass events). Then, he received a fine of 25 base units.
He was released in December 2025, having served his full sentence.