Political persecutions

According to pro-government telegram channels, Ilya not only participated in the 2020 protests, but also "made extremist" tattoos, including those allegedly "inciting ethnic hatred against the backdrop of the Ukrainian conflict."

After serving an administrative arrest, on May 1, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case for participating in protests

He was arrested in Minsk in October 2022, in his office, for allegedly posting comments in the chatbot of the "Belarus of the Brain" channel. He is reportedly in pretrial detention and facing two criminal charges.

Ivantsov is 38 years old. He studied at the Faculty of Biology at BSU, worked as a junior research fellow at the Academy of Sciences, and served as a medical representative for several pharmaceutical companies. Since 2013, he has headed the company "De Visu," which conducts marketing research in the pharmaceutical industry. Five years ago, Ivantsov entered graduate school at BGPU and worked at the university. Ivantsov is also a practicing psychologist and a proponent and popularizer of the Enneagram.

On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Ukraine.

Convicted for participating in protests in 2020.

On July 14, 2023, the appeal was considered. Chairman of the Judicial Board Maxim Lapko.

On August 7, 2024, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Minsk, Judge Olga Lavrinovich will make a decision “On replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open correctional facility.”

Andrey and his wife are Ukrainians, both from Chernihiv. The couple moved to Belarus after getting married: it was his wife's wish, as her parents lived there.

The family had been living in Vitebsk for 10 years. Andrei worked as an electrician at the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. He was also detained at work.

In the pro-government film "Gaspar Didn't Get in Touch" on the ONT television channel, aired on April 5, 2023, Andrei was accused of being an agent for Ukraine.

As the film reports , Shmai regularly sent information via the Signal messenger to Ukraine to his younger brother, Ruslan, who serves in the Chernihiv operational directorate "North" and is the deputy commander for operational affairs.

On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Ukraine.

Detained for a photo from the 2020 protests. She is under investigation and released on bail.

Detained together with his wife on February 23, 2023.

Accused of participating in protest actions.

The family brings up 3 juvenile children.

Detained with her husband on February 23, 2023. On March 3, she was transferred from the temporary detention center to the Zhodino pre-trial detention center.

He is accused of participating in protest actions.

The family brings up 3 juvenile children.

Detained on 03/07/2023.

On the evening of March 27, Alina went to the Investigative Committee to testify as a witness in a criminal case on participation in peaceful protests in Minsk and was never released. After that, she spent several months in jail.

In conclusion, a number of chronic diseases worsened at Gorova. The security forces did not allow the detainee to be hospitalized, and in the Mogilev prison she was denied medical assistance, despite poor tests. The prison doctor refused to treat her with antibiotics and hospitalize her. On May 30, she was scheduled for 1 year of "home chemistry".

Already on June 13, she was detained again. She is charged with another episode of participation in a peaceful protest in Minsk in 2020. According to human rights activists , Alina is under house arrest pending trial.

She will be judged in the court of the Kruglyansky district on August 10, 2023. Together with the girl, Alesya Frigina and Pavel Talanov are involved in the case.

The Court of Appeal, which took place on August 29, 2023, overturned the judgment of the Kruglyansky Court of May 30, 2023. The case will be sent for a new trial to another district court of the Mogilev region.

Anatoly is 55 years old. He studied at the Minsk Radio Engineering College, and then went to work at the regional communications center in Baranovichi. In 1996, he became one of the founders of the local newspaper Step. This is one of the first private newspapers in the city and once one of the most popular, its circulation reached 11 thousand copies. Now the newspaper has been reformatted into a purely advertising one. Anatoly became an entrepreneur. It deals in medical products and other health products. He is presented with the fact that he left comments in the telegram against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the violence of the security forces.

Detained after returning from abroad, the reason for the detention was a photo from the 2020 protests from the Shutterstock photo bank.

The period of serving house arrest has ended.

According to the case materials , in the fall of 2020, the father and his daughter, while on the roadway of Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk, acting as a group of people, and with other people, "took an active part in group actions that grossly violated public order and involved clear disobedience to the lawful demands of a police officer, disrupted the operation of transport and enterprises, blocked and obstructed the path of vehicles, including public passenger transport."

They were identified from photographs taken at the scene.

They were kept in custody until the trial.