Political persecutions

Denis Botyan was detained on August 5, 2021 and placed in a temporary detention center for three days. Subsequently, he was released on personal bail. Based on the materials of the investigation, voiced in court on October 25, Denis Botyan published a message on the Internet on September 8, 2020: “Urgent, drivers on Masherov! Block the traffic, do not let the security forces gather, help the protesters!”.

A resident of the village of Ilyich, Rogachev district. Detained under Articles 130 and 369 of the Criminal Code. On September 1, 2022, a verdict was passed: the political prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.

On April 26, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court began hearing a new criminal case against a political prisoner. The political prisoner was transferred to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 3 .

As a result of the second trial, Andrey was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. The trial was held behind closed doors on May 22, 2023.

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 Andrei Stepankov.

The owner of the portal "Virtual Brest". Was convicted for the comment.

According to the investigation, on December 18, 2020, Tatyana put "an insulting inscription on the door of the mailbox of the judge of the Brest Regional Court Senko Ruslana Albertovna, counting on its repeated reading and perception." The defendant pleaded not guilty.

was detained along with the guys on November 1 at the March against terror in Minsk.

Volunteer of the Gomel branch of the Human Rights Center "Vesna".

She was detained late in the evening on January 18 and placed in a temporary detention center. Her house was also searched. Previously, Maria Tarasenko actively advocated the abolition of the so-called decree on "parasites" and sued local officials of the Gomel region, who forbade protests against the decree. She was released three days later on bail.

Yulia, the chief accountant of the IT company PandaDoc, was detained on September 2, 2020, at the company's office on charges of fraud by employees of the Financial Investigation Department.

Following the events of August 2020, PandaDoc founder Nikita Mikado launched the Protect Belarus initiative to support dismissed law enforcement officers who refused to follow illegal orders. The initiative received over 500 applications and attracted public attention.

Yulia was released in October 2020 on bail.

Yulia was detained and convicted for installing a scarecrow, which, according to investigators, resembled Lukashenko, in the regional center on Varshavskoe Shosse.

In November 2024, a court hearing was held regarding Yulia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.

Olga, an activist of the Country for Life project and a member of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s initiative group, took part in protests after the presidential elections and was repeatedly detained.

On November 15, 2020, she was detained in the courtyard of the "Square of Changes", where peaceful protesters gathered for a rally in memory of Roman Bondarenko, killed by security forces, under the slogan "I'm coming out". After that, a criminal case was opened against Olga.

In February 2021, she was convicted of “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.” She left Belarus some time later.

In October 2024, a court hearing was held in absentia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.

She left a comment in "Klichev-chat": "There are no such words in my lexicon, which would have fallen to a getam bastard."

According to the prosecution, on February 18, 2021, Alexander Kushneruk left an insulting comment in the “Dvizh” group of the social network “VKontakte” under a publication with a text about how the drug control officer Shramov and the district police officer Shlupakov “sacrifice their lives” filmed white-red-white balloons, wrote a comment with the following content: "Assholes! Fuckers!".

The victim in the case was a police officer Yuri Chernyshkov, who had already been in this status in a number of cases and said that he would bring to justice all 97 commentators who offended him.

The case was opened because of two comments on the Vkontakte social network, which Alexandrov left in February 2021 under the photographs of Alexander Leonidovich Shlupakov and Sergei Vladimirovich Shramov.

Ekaterina was accused of insulting a representative of the authorities, an employee of the prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district of Minsk, Taratenko.

Sergey Mashnitsky said that he is not a political person and mostly spends time in the country, watching scientific and educational films from a laptop in the evenings. And while watching them during the election campaign, “all sorts of bloggers” often popped up, some of them I watched for educational purposes. So he drew attention to "this Karach", which "pearled at the president, the state is an ardent fighter." So he decided to leave a comment. He wanted to write "with * ka white-haired", but the button jammed and hit Volnich: Mashnitsky has no claims against him, since he himself worked in the police, worked under a contract in Moscow.