Political prisoners

Former journalist for Naviny.by.

Previously, Pavel worked for various independent publications. During the 2020 protests, he was detained and charged with administrative offences in connection with his professional activities. In the fall of 2021, Pavel Dobrovolsky left Belarus. He traveled extensively across various countries, reporting.

However, as has now becomeknown , he has been held in a pretrial detention facility in Belarus since January 2025. The circumstances of his criminal prosecution suggest that Pavel's previous activities related to the exercise of his right to free expression and dissemination of information are the reason for his detention.

In October 2025, it became known that Pavel was accused of treason.

Oleg Suprunyuk is known to residents of Brest region as a reporter who covered socially and publicly significant problems of the region. During his time in the profession, he worked for the newspaper "Brest Courier", the online publication "First Region", and collaborated with other independent publications.

The journalist disappeared on January 22, he stopped answering calls and did not appear on social networks. It later became clear that he was detained as part of a criminal case. For almost five months, nothing was known about Oleg's fate.

Previously, the journalist was prosecuted under an administrative article. On December 12, 2024, security forces came to Oleg Suprunyuk with a search. Then they took away his computer equipment and phone, and took him away for questioning. After the interrogation, an administrative protocol was drawn up for allegedly distributing "extremist information products" (under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The journalist was sentenced to 15 days of arrest, and was released on December 27.

In December 2024, pro-government media posted an audio recording of Olga, who is accused of participating in the "White Wings of Baranovichi" chat. When the KGB declared the "White Wings of Baranovichi" chat - a very small and long-inactive district chat - an extremist group, Olga was named among the participants. Olga was contacted through an unprotected account. It was linked to the girl's own number. Most likely, Olga was held in a pre-trial detention center before the trial.

Olga plays drums and was a drummer in amateur music groups as a student. She and her husband enjoy traveling.

The trial began on July 29, 2025 and lasted until August 20, 2025.

On July 31, 2024, she was detained under an administrative article, after which, apparently, a criminal case was opened.

It is known that the woman worked as a librarian, and in the last year before her arrest, she worked in the system of municipal public utilities of the Minsk City Executive Committee.

People who met Irina in prison said that she was having a very hard time dealing with her arrest. According to her, her relatives and friends had turned away from her. In addition, Irina had serious health problems: court hearings even had to be interrupted because the woman was getting sick.

Due to the closed nature of the Belarusian judicial system, the circumstances of the case and the verdict are unknown. There is only information that he was sentenced to a real term of imprisonment and is being held in prison.

It is most likely that the authorities repressed Vyacheslav Berestov for his participation in peaceful protests against the falsification of the results of the presidential elections and the subsequent police violence against the protesters.

Vyacheslav is the brother of political prisoner Andrei Berestovoy, who was also convicted under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. It is known that he was sentenced to imprisonment.

It is known that before his arrest, Dmitry lived in Minsk and worked as a programmer. He also periodically taught programming at the Belarusian State University in the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Before his arrest, Dmitry did not work anywhere, since he became "unreliable" for the university, and many IT companies left Belarus, so there was no work for him with his high qualifications. He did not want to leave, because at that time he was caring for his elderly mother. During the investigation of Dmitry, she died.

A psychologist and individual entrepreneur from Slutsk. He graduated from the Minsk Aviation Technical School of Civil Aviation and the Yanka Kupala University of Grodno, specializing in Psychology. Vladimir actively helped people with alcohol addiction. He was fond of sports and reading. He has two adult children.

In November 2020, Vladimir was already detained under Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest, which he served in Slutsk.

On June 24, 2025, he was detained at home in the so-called “Gayun case”.