Maksim Leonidovich Trusevich
He handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where he imposed penalties in the form of a fine in a total amount of at least 86,085 rubles and in the form of administrative arrest for at least 3,636 days. Found Olga and Elena Zharin guilty for participating in protests under Article 342 of the Criminal Code. Trusevich sentenced Olga to two years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility, and Elena to three. He found Dmitry Neverovsky, accused of insulting a government official under Article 369 of the Criminal Code, guilty and sentenced him to 2 years of restriction of freedom without sending him to an open correctional facility. Trusevich also ordered the confiscation of the mobile phone as a means of committing a crime, and the destruction of material evidence. Dmitry has a 3rd disability group.
He handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where he imposed penalties in the form of a fine in a total amount of at least 86,085 rubles and in the form of administrative arrest for at least 3,636 days. Found Olga and Elena Zharin guilty for participating in protests under Article 342 of the Criminal Code. Trusevich sentenced Olga to two years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility, and Elena to three. He found Dmitry Neverovsky, accused of insulting a government official under Article 369 of the Criminal Code, guilty and sentenced him to 2 years of restriction of freedom without sending him to an open correctional facility. Trusevich also ordered the confiscation of the mobile phone as a means of committing a crime, and the destruction of material evidence. Dmitry has a 3rd disability group.
List of repressed
Retired, avid landscape designer and topiary master.
In 2020, he took part in protest marches, including pensioners' marches.
In August 2022, he was detained by GUBOP officers on his way to work. The case initially resulted in a 10-day administrative arrest for an "extremist repost." After 10 days in Okrestina, a criminal case was opened against Kostus under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and he was transferred to a pretrial detention center.
After being released on home chemistry, Konstantin left the Republic of Belarus after some time.
In May 2025, a criminal case was opened in absentia against Konstantin “to replace the punishment with a more severe one.”
He was first detained under an administrative article, sentenced to 15 days, after which he was re-arrested as part of a criminal case. He was convicted for participating in protests in 2020.
| 20.09.2022 | was registered as an extremist on 05/23/2022 |
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
According to pro-government channels, Sergei, an employee of the Minsk Gear Plant, was a participant in the 2020 protest movement, inciting others to layoffs, illegal strikes and strikes.
Citizen of the Russian Federation.
In the fall of 2023, he was released and deported to the Russian Federation.
Anatoly was convicted in July 2021 of insulting a government official.
According to the indictment, on October 29, 2020, while at home, he left a comment under an image describing police officer Alexander Kravchenko on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus," using obscene language. The investigation classified this as a public insult intended to cause the police officer emotional distress.
In November 2022, Anatoly faced trial under the same article. The nature of the charges, the details of the case, and the outcome of the trial are unknown.
Dmitry was convicted for a comment on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" under a photo of Valeria Taratynko, Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the Frunzensky District of Minsk. According to the prosecution, the comment humiliated her honor and dignity.
Vadim was convicted for participating in a peaceful protest - a march in support of political prisoners, which took place on October 4, 2020 in Minsk, and sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction.
On March 27, 2021, Ivan and his brother Sergei were returning home along Independence Avenue in Minsk and took a photo of passing military equipment along the way, after which they were detained. At the Pervomaisky District Department of Internal Affairs, two reports were drawn up against them - under Articles 24.23 and 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ("participation in an unauthorized rally" and "disobedience to a lawful demand of an official").
At the trial, the brothers asked not to order arrest, since their mother had recently suffered a stroke and needed care. Despite this, each was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest.
After serving his administrative sentence, Ivan was transferred to a pretrial detention facility. The grounds and nature of the charges remain unknown.
- Associations
- Administrators of TG-channels
Dmitry was detained in the fall of 2020 and subsequently convicted on charges of "organizing group actions that grossly violate public order." According to the prosecution, from August 31 to October 30, 2020, he, as the administrator of the Telegram chat "Minsk. Road Blocking. Chat", published instructions on blocking traffic, searched for participants and coordinated their actions.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2022, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
- Associations
- Activists
- Bloggers
- Parents of minors
Olga, a blogger and designer, has been repeatedly persecuted and detained under administrative articles following the events that followed the 2020 elections in Minsk. In May 2021, her home was searched, after which Olga was detained as part of a criminal case opened on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." Before that, she was already a suspect under two articles of the Criminal Code - "insulting a judge" and "slandering an election commission employee."
In December of the same year, Olga was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
She was released in June 2022, having served her full sentence as determined by the court.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Yevgeny was convicted for participating in a protest action - the March for the Liberation of Political Prisoners, which took place on October 4, 2020 in Minsk, during which he struck the outer cell of the temporary detention facility on Okrestina Street twice. However, there was no damage to the cell.
Released in September 2021 as part of a pardon.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Olga was convicted for a comment left in one of the Telegram channels addressed to Lukashenko.
- Associations
- Students
Yevgeny was detained and convicted in a criminal case opened over the events of July 14, 2020, in Minsk, when people took to the streets to protest the Central Election Commission's decision not to register Viktor Babariko and Valery Tsepkalo as presidential candidates.
He was released in March 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
| 30.05.2021 | Dmitrievich |
Yaroslav was detained on September 25, 2020, on charges of participating in a protest on the night of August 10-11, 2020, near the Riga shopping center in Minsk. He was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." The court also ordered the confiscation of his personal car to the state, considering it a means of committing a crime.
In January 2022, he was pardoned: his sentence was replaced with “house arrest”.
- Associations
- IT staff
Alexey, CEO and developer of the startup MakeML, was detained on August 27, 2020 and convicted for participating in a peaceful gathering on Independence Square near the Red Church in Minsk.
He was released in March 2022, having served his full sentence as determined by the court.
