Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution.
He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health.
It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten.
Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution.
He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health.
It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten.
Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
List of repressed
A programmer who was detained in December 2021 for comments on networks.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
- Associations
- Journalists
The director of the newspaper "Belarusians and the Market" was detained on May 18, 2022, following a search of the editorial office.
He was released in the fall of 2025, having served his full sentence.
Political activist from Grodno. In 2017, he spoke at protests related to the introduction of a “tax on parasitism.” In 2019, I set up a tent in front of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Grodno to solve the housing problem. In 2020, Lavrentiev, together with activist Nikolai Solyanik, held a number of actions for the introduction of quarantine in Belarus during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the 2020 presidential elections, the activist was serving administrative arrest for an action during a meeting with Sergei Tikhanovsky. In the fall of 2020, he left Belarus for Poland.
In Poland, he volunteered to help two Belarusian refugees. but in December 2020, Alexander disappeared from a rented apartment in Bialystok. The girls' money also disappeared with him. He did not answer calls or messages. He told his friend that he calmly crossed the Polish-Belarusian border, but his case in Belarus was closed due to lack of evidence. In 2021, Alexander purchased a food truck and worked in one of the microdistricts of Grodno. I was selling shawarma. On May 2, 2022, Lavrentyev was detained right at his workplace. Detained by the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Grodno Region. After the arrest, the Grodno resident said on camera that he was detained for distributing extremist information online and insulting the president. He admitted guilt.
On October 11, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
In the summer of 2024, it became known that Grodno resident Alexander Lavrentiev was given another 1 year of imprisonment in a colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution”).
The case was initiated for distributing and mailing leaflets calling for counting the votes of voters honestly.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
A famous Belarusian musician. He played in the bands Krambambulya, ZET, Pomidor/off and Hasta la Fillsta.
Convicted of "slander" and "insult".
At the end of October 2022, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Vladislav.
According to the indictment, Plyushchev reposted to the Telegram chat "Pruzhany is not your city" from "extremist" channels. He also allegedly left offensive comments about government officials and posted information that was deliberately false, degrading, and slanderous. A total of 43 people were recognized as victims in the case.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in February 2025, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Oleg was detained for subscribing to "destructive Telegram channels."
In a repentant video, he said he was detained for subscribing to "destructive Telegram channels" where he spread extremist information, as well as for attempting to "intimidate the police."
He was scheduled to be released in February 2026.
He was detained on January 13, 2022 on an administrative case for 15 days, then for another 12, but he was not released - a criminal case was opened about offensive comments on the Internet.
According to human rights activists, he was released on December 1, 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
During the trial, it became known that Ryabchenko left the comment: “The creature understands that he will have to answer for everything,” under a post about the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Gennady Kazakevich in the “Cyberpartisans” chat, and also wrote comments with a “negative assessment” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs employees, judges, government officials, and members of the armed forces.
He was released at the end of May 2024.
According to the case file, on the night of December 9-10, 2021, Gelakhov, being drunk, called 101 and insulted Lukashenko. After calling 101, Igor Gelakhov dialed 102 to inform the police about the impending explosion at secondary school No. 18.
The man fully admitted his guilt in court and said that he was too drunk.
The man was found guilty of slandering Lukashenka. According to the prosecution, he posted a message on the Internet with defamatory information.
On December 20, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1 year in prison .
- Associations
- Service sector
Previously, he was brought to administrative responsibility for participating in protests.
On June 29, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
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2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The case was opened for the distribution and mailing of leaflets calling for voters' votes to be counted fairly.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in October 2024.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
He worked as a foreman at the Mozyr Electric Grids branch of the Gomelenergo RUE.
Detained for comments addressed to government officials. Confessions were published on a pro-government channel.
At home there are two sons, 3 and 9 years old.
On September 19, 2022, Gomel Regional Court Judge Anatoly Sotnikov found Evgeny guilty and sentenced him to 3.5 years in prison and a fine of 4.2 thousand rubles.
On January 13, 2023, another case against Yevgeny was heard in Mozyr under Article 369 of the Criminal Code. The trial was conducted behind closed doors by Judge Galina Knizhonok. According to human rights activists, the political prisoner was sentenced to 1 year and 8 months of imprisonment, but the final term of punishment remained the same. The judge also ordered the man to pay 4.2 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage. An appeal against this sentence was heard on March 10, 2023 in the Gomel Regional Court.
Evgeniya was transferred from Pre-trial Detention Center No. 3 to Novopolotsk Correctional Colony No. 1 at the end of March 2023.
On 24.02.2025 he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Nichiporko is accused of more than 30 criminal episodes. In particular, in September 2020, he spray-painted fences in the village of Niva in the Berezovsky district, bus stops, garages and buildings in the city of Bereza, pasted leaflets on city poles, painted the entrance doors and the facade of the house of a police officer, stole almost two dozen surveillance cameras, ruined the facades of high-rise buildings with liquid with the content of petroleum products, shredded several state flags of the Republic of Belarus.
