Tatiana Valerievna Pirozhnikova
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 91 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 449 days of administrative arrest, at least 14,515 rubles in fines, and at least 40 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed. She sentenced drummer Alexei Sanchuk to 6 years in prison under enhanced security conditions. The case file mentions underwater weapons, pyrotechnics and laser pointers, even though the items were found in another person's garage. She made guilty decisions against participants in a solidarity rally with Dmitry Palienko, as well as participants in another solidarity rally with Eduard Palchis. On June 15, 2021, a child was born in the Dashkevich family. And on July 11, 2022, the judge sentenced Dmitry Dashkevich to one and a half years in prison. On July 14, Dashkevich sentenced Anastasia - 3 years of restriction of freedom, without referral to open institutions. He uses false testimony from people known to be loyal to Lukashenko’s regime as “evidence” of guilt.
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 91 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 449 days of administrative arrest, at least 14,515 rubles in fines, and at least 40 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed. She sentenced drummer Alexei Sanchuk to 6 years in prison under enhanced security conditions. The case file mentions underwater weapons, pyrotechnics and laser pointers, even though the items were found in another person's garage. She made guilty decisions against participants in a solidarity rally with Dmitry Palienko, as well as participants in another solidarity rally with Eduard Palchis. On June 15, 2021, a child was born in the Dashkevich family. And on July 11, 2022, the judge sentenced Dmitry Dashkevich to one and a half years in prison. On July 14, Dashkevich sentenced Anastasia - 3 years of restriction of freedom, without referral to open institutions. He uses false testimony from people known to be loyal to Lukashenko’s regime as “evidence” of guilt.
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The pro-government telegram channel “Pulse of Grodno” published a video of a Minsk resident detained for participating in protests.
In the video , the Belarusian says that in 2020 he took part in protests and left negative comments towards the authorities and police officers. The detainee also said that he had a bad attitude towards the Russian military.
In the "repentance video", Sophia says that she participated in a protest in 2020 - namely, she stood on the road with a banner. According to security forces, footage of the girl was found in a DELFI film about Belarusian protests, and therefore she was detained.
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He worked as an international transportation manager for the Minsk company Transglobal.
Sergey was very active in commenting on various messages in more than 30 groups. The Telegram account was more or less decently protected, but he had not changed it since 2018.
The security forces accuse him of "threatening government officials on the Internet" (he left 43 thousand comments). And also of transferring some information about his former classmate, a security officer, to the "Black Book of Belarus". 58 criminal cases have been opened against him.
On September 29, 2023, he was sent to pretrial detention center No. 4 (Mogilev). On October 27, Sergei's appeal was considered in the Minsk City Court. In late autumn 2023, it became known that Sergei had been transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1 as part of a new criminal case. The trial under Article 369 (insulting a government official) was scheduled for December 7, 2023, in the Minsk Moskovsky District Court, Judge Tatyana Pirozhnikova.
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Dmitry Dashkevich is one of the most famous political figures in Belarus. He has been involved in public activities since 2001. He was the leader of the "Young Front" and served long prison terms several times for political activities in Belarus. Dashkevich is also one of the organizers of the "Night of Shot Poets" and "Defense of Kurapaty" campaigns.
After the 2020 elections, Dashkevich remained, perhaps, the only public opposition politician who remained in Belarus.
He was detained on March 23, 2022, sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article, during which time a criminal case was opened against Dmitry and after 15 days he was left in custody.
In July 2023, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Dmitry for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of the correctional institution” (Article 411 of the Criminal Code). On October 18, Judge Tatyana Derevyanko sentenced Dmitry to another year in a maximum-security penal colony.
In January 2024, the political prisoner was transferred again to IK No. 14. In the colony, he was placed in a punishment cell, where it is terribly cold. During the night, Dmitry has to get up to eight times to do exercises and somehow warm up. For this, they write reports about him not lying down after lights out.
At the end of May 2024, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Dmitry.
Dmitry was charged with "people's" article 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order), as well as part 1 of article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration) and was again sentenced to a new term.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries . Among those released is Dmitry Dashkevich.
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Detained for participating in protests in 2020. Certified fitness and bodybuilding trainer.
As Shchitnikov testified during the trial, he unintentionally struck a traffic police car after his wife, who was sitting next to him, screamed: she saw a man being hit near the road. Taken by surprise, the Nissan driver struck the parked traffic police car. Shchitnikov was subsequently detained and, according to him, beaten at the Moscow District Police Department. He was taken to the Okrestina detention center with a traumatic brain injury.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2025.
Pavel was arrested on June 17, 2021, in connection with a criminal case involving group actions grossly violating public order. In September of that year, he was convicted of participating in the post-election protests that took place in Minsk in August 2020.
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Rostislav, a former Gorodeya football player, was detained three times — from August 2020 to spring 2021 — and sent to serve administrative arrests. The last time, on May 17, 2021, he was sentenced to 15 days for disobeying the police. However, after serving the sentence, he was not released and was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on charges of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." A criminal case was opened against Rostislav after a march in Kurapaty, which took place on November 1, 2020. In September 2021, he was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction and released from custody in the courtroom.
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Vladimir, a student at the Aviation Academy, 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 sentenced to restricted freedom in an open-type correctional facility and ordered to pay large compensation to the "victims."
In 2023, it became known that his punishment had been toughened, replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Ivan was detained and convicted for participating in a protest against the results of the presidential elections, which took place from August 11 to 12, 2020, on Dzerzhinsky Avenue in Minsk.
He was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
