Aliaksandr Mikalayevich Kuzniatsou (Dzhasau)
The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Senior Operations Officer.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kuznetsov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions.
Kuznetsov exerted psychological pressure on political prisoners Ekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Kanevskaya, Anna Vishnyak, and Miya Mitkevich. He staged provocations, invented reasons for unfounded penalties, and ordered the beating of prisoners.
According to information from former political prisoner Natalia Khershe, Kuznetsov did not allow a container for personal hygiene in the PKT.
Under Kuznetsov's orders, other prisoners spoiled food intended for political prisoners and deprived them of sleep. Political prisoners were forced to work constantly and clean the premises, were doused with water at night, had their belongings damaged, had used hygiene products thrown into their beds, and had needles planted in their bodies. Kuznetsov was also involved in compiling reports of violations against political prisoners on trumped-up grounds, claiming that such people were a burden to this world and forcing them to commit suicide.
The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Senior Operations Officer.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kuznetsov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions.
Kuznetsov exerted psychological pressure on political prisoners Ekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Kanevskaya, Anna Vishnyak, and Miya Mitkevich. He staged provocations, invented reasons for unfounded penalties, and ordered the beating of prisoners.
According to information from former political prisoner Natalia Khershe, Kuznetsov did not allow a container for personal hygiene in the PKT.
Under Kuznetsov's orders, other prisoners spoiled food intended for political prisoners and deprived them of sleep. Political prisoners were forced to work constantly and clean the premises, were doused with water at night, had their belongings damaged, had used hygiene products thrown into their beds, and had needles planted in their bodies. Kuznetsov was also involved in compiling reports of violations against political prisoners on trumped-up grounds, claiming that such people were a burden to this world and forcing them to commit suicide.
List of repressed
- Associations
She's Anti-racist.
According to the channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, she was detained under a criminal article.
On her Instagram page, which had almost 15 thousand subscribers, Kristina published photos dedicated to subcultural fashion, did not hide her political views. And after Putin's attack on Ukraine, she used her account to express anti-war slogans.
On the first day of the trial on November 10, 2022, Kristina refused to testify, so her testimony was read out during interrogations at the trial. Kristina explained that in August 2020, the police detained her husband's parents, they were beaten. Therefore, she began to have a negative attitude towards the police.
The prosecution representative at the hearing demanded 3 years in prison.
Released 10.04. 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
She left a reaction in the form of a sad emoticon to someone else's post (she was not the author of the post and did not leave any comments under it). For this she was arrested.
According to human rights activists, Svetlana served her term in full and was released in December 2022.
1 year in prison .
- Associations
- Activists
Social activist from Minsk.
She was detained on February 17, 2022, at her place of residence.
Her home was searched. Initially, she was sentenced to administrative arrest, but Anastasia was not released after that.
On September 10, 2026, she was released , having fully served her sentence.
- Associations
- Bloggers
According to pro-government channels , she was detained for participating in protests. Entrepreneur, mother of three children.
In December 2023, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Detained on March 6, 2022 for comments in Telegram channels.
The hearings were held behind closed doors. It is known that Judge Nikolai Dolya sentenced the woman to imprisonment , the length of which is being determined by human rights activists.
She was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
The court session was delayed due to the fact that Koloskova told her lawyer by phone that she was being delayed because she was traveling from Krichev. After half a day of waiting, the prosecutor's assistant turned to the judge with a proposal in connection with the defendant's failure to appear, to change her preventive measure from a written undertaking not to leave the place to detention and putting her on the wanted list .
On February 7, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
Replacing the regime of 7 months in a colony, transported at the beginning of July 2022 to IK-4.
She was detained for distributing and mailing leaflets with an appeal to count the votes of voters honestly.
09.15.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
| 09.03.2022 | Transferred from the KGB pre-trial detention center to the Volodarsky pre-trial detention center. Address for letters: 220030, Minsk, SIZO-1, Volodarsky St., 2, room 86 |
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with a general regime.
was detained on October 21, 2021 and until mid-December was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center as part of a criminal case on terrorism. Then the charge was reclassified to Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. At the trial, it turned out that the term of imprisonment in the KGB pre-trial detention center would not be counted. The term of serving the sentence is considered from December 16, 2021.
On February 20, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1.5 years in prison.
An activist of the Mothers 328 movement, she sent many complaints about the illegal detention of her son and his sentencing under a criminal article.
She was detained for “slander” and sentenced to 4 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IWOT. She served her sentence in IUOT-1. On April 12, 2024, a court hearing was held to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a colony for 10 months.
10 months imprisonment
- Associations
- Parents of minors
According to the case materials , in January 2021, Gavrilov purchased and provided two acquaintances, Tatyana and Oleg Birulya, with aerosol cans of paint. After which, from January to February 2021, the latter applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure objects in Soligorsk, "causing them to become damaged." They also applied an inscription to the wall of one of the houses regarding Lukashenko, "in which they accused him of a particularly serious crime, that is, they committed slander."
Then, from August to December 2021, the accused distributed leaflets and other printed materials in Soligorsk . The content of these leaflets was allegedly aimed at inciting social hatred and discord on the basis of a different social affiliation.
At the end of winter 2024, it became known that Tatyana was being transferred to a prison in Zhodino.
- Associations
- Retirees
For comments in the Telegram channel. The victims were the chairman of the Volkovysk district executive committee, Mikhail Sitko (the only one who did not file a claim for compensation for moral damage), OMON policemen of the Grodno Internal Affairs Directorate Daria Bondarchuk and Maria Mazurkevich, head of the police department of the Volkovysk district police department Valery Romanchik, head of the Volkovysk district police department Vitaly Osotsky. In total, the victims estimated their moral suffering at 5,000 rubles - while the accused has a pension of 500 rubles. The woman in the last word said that imprisonment would be a "death sentence" for her, but judge Andrei Tolochko sentenced her to 2.5 years in prison.
She was released on September 20, 2022 by pardon.
2.5 years in a general regime colony
She was convicted of spray-painting images of the white-white flag on various surfaces in the city.
Detained again for comment in 2021.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in January 2024 upon expiration of her sentence.
- Associations
- Twice political prisoners
- Parents of minors
She was detained for drawing "Pahonia" stencils. On September 20, the Central District Court of Minsk sentenced three political prisoners: Anatoly Latushka, the cousin of politician Pavel Latushko, Lilia Ananyan, and Elena Malinovskaya. At the trial, Latushko and Malinovskaya pleaded not guilty, while Ananyan fully admitted her guilt. Judge Dmitry Karsyuk sentenced Anatoly to six years in prison, Elena to four years in prison, and Lilia to five years of house arrest, before releasing her in the courtroom.
Elena has a minor son left at home.
Elena was supposed to be released at the end of August 2025, but she was never released. As Elena's friends told Nasha Niva , she was transported to Minsk, where a new criminal case was opened against her .
In early March, Elena was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison. Because she had already served over four years behind bars, the court counted this time toward her sentence, so she was released during the trial.
A resident of Rogachev was detained on January 19, 2022 in a criminal case initiated after protests in Zhlobin in August 2020. The woman's house was searched, Zhlobin was taken to the Investigative Committee for interrogation, then to the temporary detention center, and then to the pre-trial detention center.
On May 15, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with a general regime.
