In 2020, Svetlana's husband and son were arrested and sentenced to four years in prison.
In 2024, Svetlana became a suspect in the INeedHelp case (providing food assistance to the families of political prisoners), and her apartment was searched. After that, she was repeatedly summoned for questioning. Security officials also continued to pressure her son and husband, who had been released by that time.
The family decided to leave the Republic of Belarus.
After her departure, Svetla became a defendant in a criminal case and was put on the wanted list.
In 2013, Denis graduated from the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanics at Bashkir State Agricultural University. Previously, he worked as a machine operator and even participated in regional ploughman competitions in the Klychev region.
Denis later went into business for himself: in March 2022, he registered as an individual entrepreneur, specializing in forestry services, logging, and woodworking.
Denis has a family - a wife and a son.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In December 2024, a propaganda video about foundations that help political prisoners aired on the ONT channel. Elena was featured as a volunteer for one of the foundations.
Renat Pelageichik was 17 years old at the time of the protests in 2020.
At just 18 years old, the young man decided to go into business: in February 2021, he registered as a sole proprietor in his hometown to engage in online retail sales.
According to social media data, the young man moved to Russia some time later. In 2024, he actively posted job postings on VKontakte. Renat was looking for Belarusians and Russians to work shifts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Smolensk, offering positions as loaders, packers, and general laborers.
The statute of limitations on his criminal case should have expired long ago. But according to the criminal code, the statute of limitations is suspended if a person is wanted. Ruslan was put on the wanted list. And eventually, he was detained —possibly in Russia—but the circumstances are unknown.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Before his arrest, Nikita worked as a marketing assistant at the Avangard Real Estate agency.
In his free time, Nikita enjoys computer hardware, streaming, and 3D graphics. He's a keen tech enthusiast and has helped people select processors and graphics cards for graphics workflows in social media communities, explained the nuances of monitor setup, and shared his experience building computers.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Irina is originally from Mstislavl in the Mogilev region, but spent much of her life in Moscow. In 2011, she graduated from the Humanities Department of the Moscow Finance and Law Academy (MFLA) with a degree in advertising.
Irina has long worked as a content manager, editor, and media monitoring specialist. She has worked on website content creation, photo and video archives, and social media analytics.
Irina wrote on social media that she lived in a private house in the Moscow region, worked from home, and periodically traveled to Belarus to visit her parents. She was detained , presumably during one of these trips to Belarus.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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