Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
He returned home from abroad and was taken into custody in late September-early October 2024. He came home to renew his passport. He was charged with "deliberate actions aimed at inciting national, religious, and other social hatred and discord," "dissemination of materials containing public calls for the seizure of state power, ..., and other actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus," "insulting a government official," and "insulting Lukashenko."
Arkady was ultimately sentenced to five years in a maximum-security penal colony and a fine of 500 basic units. He was also ordered to pay 5,000 rubles in "moral damages" to Andrey Ivanovich Shvets.
Trial outcome 13.10.2025
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
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.
Pulmonologist with 30 years of experience. Worked at the 10th hospital of Minsk (1992-2022), headed the department.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 15.07.2025
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.
She worked as the head teacher for educational work at Minsk Gymnasium No. 34, which is located near Orlovskaya Street, opposite Kievsky Square. The woman graduated from the Belarusian State Pedagogical University (then the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute) in 1984, after which she taught mathematics for about 40 years.
In July 2021, Petrazytskaya was sentenced to 15 days. Her home was then searched, she was taken to the KGB, and then a protocol was drawn up for "insubordination." It is unknown exactly when the head teacher was fired from the school.
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine.
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.
5 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 01.07.2025
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.
unknown 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.
unknown 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.
Victor has over 10 years of experience as a laser and milling equipment operator. In recent years, he has been involved in computer game development — creating custom games and mods for Dota 2.
Trial outcome 16.06.2025
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 22.08.2025
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.
Vadim graduated from the Faculty of Telecommunications at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics.
Zhukovsky worked for a long time as a design engineer at Peleng - in the 20th Directorate, in the electronic systems support sector. He and his colleagues make equipment for the Russian military, such as tank sights.
The man was detained and placed in pretrial detention immediately after the KGB raid on the enterprise, which took place in the summer of 2024. The man was convicted in the Minsk City Court; the verdict and the nature of the charges are unknown.
Trial outcome 21.12.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown 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.
Andrey is originally from Dokshitsy. After school in 2006, he entered the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, studied at the Faculty of Computer Systems and Networks. He is registered in Kopishche. During his studies, Andrey began working at EPAM. According to Linkedin, he recently worked as a Lead Software Engineer — he managed part of the development team on the project. It is unknown whether he recently lived in Belarus or not, but he traveled a lot.
Trial outcome 01.04.2025
5 years 6 months 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.
Evgeniy was arrested in December 2024 and sentenced to imprisonment in June 2025.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown 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.
Olga Sitnik is a housewife from Minsk who is raising three minor children. Since 2009, she has been writing on Wikipedia about Belarusian traditional culture and nature, as well as on topics such as breastfeeding. More than two dozen of her articles have been awarded the status of "good" or "excellent". Since 2010, she has been the administrator of the Belarusian Wikipedia. Olga Sitnik has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia and created thousands of articles for it.
She was arrested in May 2025. The nature of the charges is unknown, but it appears that Sitnik is involved in a criminal case with other Belarusian Wikipedia administrators who are now behind bars.
He was detained in November 2024 and convicted under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (Distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity), after which a criminal case was opened.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown 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.
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