Dmitriy Nikolaevich Strebkov

Ilya was detained and convicted for allegedly punching a riot police officer in the face. On October 17, 2020, students gathered for a march to express their disagreement with the violence following the rigged elections. Dozens of people were detained that day, including BNTU students. Ilya tried to run away from the riot police, but fell and hit his elbow. The riot police officer said that the student hit him in the face with his knee during the arrest. “It was unintentional. I was running away, maybe I just accidentally hit you. I didn’t feel it. I was just running away and fell,” Ilya said when he was forced to comment on “his actions” on video.

According to human rights activists, he will have served his entire sentence in the fall of 2022.

Vladislav was convicted for writing the words “We will not forget” at the site of the death of Alexander Taraikovsky, who was shot dead near the Pushkinskaya metro station during a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Minsk.

He was released in October 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

On October 24, 2023, Vladislav was arrested for two months for violating supervision.

Igor was convicted for writing the words “We will not forget” at the site of the death of Alexander Taraikovsky, who was shot dead near the Pushkinskaya metro station during a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Minsk.

He was released in July 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Denis was convicted for writing the words “We will not forget” at the site of the death of Alexander Taraikovsky, who was shot dead near the Pushkinskaya metro station during a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Minsk.

The political prisoner was detained again on February 15, 2022, in the "extremist chat" case, and in July 2022, he was convicted of insulting a government official on social media. The court sentenced him to one year and seven months in prison, taking into account the unserved term.

On June 10, 2023, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

He was arrested and convicted for hitting a police minibus during the dispersal of the Sunday protest that took place on August 30, 2020 in Minsk.

According to human rights activists, he was released in July 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Yevgeny was arrested and convicted of pepper spraying police officers in Minsk during a protest against Lukashenko's inauguration on September 23, 2020.

On January 4, 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Andrei was detained on August 30, 2020, during a Sunday protest in Minsk and convicted of trying to stop another protester from being detained.

From September 28, 2021, he was transferred to prison regime for 3 years.

He was released in early June 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Pavel was arrested and convicted for spraying pepper gas on police officers on September 5, 2020, near the public memorial to Alexander Taraikovsky, located near the Pushkinskaya station.

At the end of June 2024, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Stanislav was convicted of insulting a judge in Mogilev and sentenced to three years in an open-type correctional facility. As a result of the amnesty, the sentence was reduced by one year.

On February 15, 2022, KGB officers came to Stanislav for "chemistry", conducted a search and forced him to unlock his phone. After that, he was placed under administrative arrest ("for a day"), where he remained until April 29, 2022.

On April 29, 2022, the sentence was replaced by 5.5 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.

On October 24, 2022, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Sergei was detained and convicted for spraying a pepper spray at a riot police officer during a protest on August 9, 2020 in Gomel against election fraud.

In June 2023 and May 2024, he was convicted twice of "malicious disobedience to the demands of the prison administration." This article is used to try prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, often on trumped-up charges. As a result, his sentence was extended by two years, to five years.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in May 2025 after completing his sentence.

Natalia, a citizen of Belarus and Switzerland, was detained on September 19, 2020, during the Women's March, a protest in Minsk. During her arrest, she tried to free herself and tore off the balaclava of a riot police officer. As a result, she was charged and convicted of "resisting a police officer."

In September 2021, the court changed Natalia's detention regime to prison.

She was released on February 18, 2022, thanks to diplomatic efforts by the Swiss authorities.

Vladislav was convicted of resisting riot police during a protest that took place in Molodechno on June 19, 2020. He was with several dozen city residents who tried to prevent the detention of participants in the peaceful assembly.

On July 9, 2023, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Pavel was arrested in September 2020 and convicted of resisting riot police during a protest that took place in Molodechno on June 19, 2020. He was among several dozen city residents who tried to prevent the arrest of participants in the peaceful assembly.

In June 2022, Pavel was convicted again for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of the correctional institution,” and an additional year of imprisonment was added to his sentence. This article applies to prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, on fabricated charges.

On February 28, 2024, he was released after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.

In December 2024, it became known that Pavel was detained again .

Ivan was arrested in October 2019 and convicted of attacks on the buildings of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 and the Minsk City Court in Minsk in solidarity with political prisoners. He was initially sentenced to 7 years in prison, but after an appeal, the term was reduced to 3.5 years. In February 2021, he was transferred to prison until the end of his sentence.

He was released on parole on January 29, 2022. According to the document issued upon release, his term of imprisonment was reduced by 1 year as part of the amnesty of May 15, 2020. The remaining part of the term was taken into account according to the scheme: 1.5 days in a pretrial detention center for 1 day in a penal colony.

Alexey is a Belarusian MMA fighter, multiple world champion in kickboxing and Thai boxing, and Honored Master of Sports of Belarus. He was detained on August 10, 2020, on the central square in Molodechno. After two weeks in the police department and pretrial detention center, he was released under house arrest. When Alexey failed to appear for his first court hearing on November 19, 2020, he was put on the wanted list.

In January 2021, he was detained in Moscow and six months later extradited to Belarus, despite a ban by the European Court of Human Rights. Alexey was convicted on charges of resisting police officers.

On December 28, 2022, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.