Political prisoners

First, Ivan was arrested for 15 days , then placed in a pretrial detention facility on a criminal case.

He was a student at the law faculty of Brest University, but then left for Poland.

The details of the case are unknown. Under the article incriminated, the Grodno resident faces imprisonment for a term of seven to fifteen years.

In January 2025, Belarusian propagandist Grigory Azarenok gave an interview to Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak. During the conversation, Sobchak took a letter from Azarenok's desk with a ruling recognizing him as a victim in a criminal case.

Sobchak read the details of the resolution on camera. The letter states that a certain Satyshur collected and provided personal data of Azarenok to a foreign state. Azarenok said that he filed a complaint against Satyshur for posting the journalist's personal data on the Internet.

When in June 2024 the KGB of Belarus declared the Media IQ project an extremist group, it named Pitkevich among its participants. Around the same time, Polina's accounts were last online.

Polina Pitkevich was born in 1994. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University (2016). She was fond of theater and for some time played as an actress in the Laboratory of Social Theater in Minsk. As a journalist, she wrote on cultural topics. Polina is also known for her love of animals - on her social media pages, you can find many ads about helping homeless tailed ones. According to friends, Polina had more than one rescued cat living in her house.

Maxim Solop is 36 years old. He is originally from Brest. In 2012, he graduated from the Physics Department of the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. He worked as an engineer at the Brest Information Computing Center for Export-Import Transportation of the Belarusian Railway.

Maxim loves traveling and active recreation, and also engages in various sports and leads a healthy lifestyle.

His trial will begin on February 24, 2025, in the Brest City Court. Maxim is accused of "calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of Belarus" (Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code).

It is known that Sergei Gorun was detained in late October 2024. In his "confession video," he claimed to have participated in the 2020 protests, throwing paving stones at security forces and blocking the road with a bench.

Mozyr activist and blogger Polina Zyl. Nasha Niva has learned that she was charged with participating in protests and belonging to an "extremist group." Her boyfriend, Maksim Shukanov, was arrested along with her. There has been no information about his release; he is likely also in pretrial detention.

After Zyl's arrest, security forces gained access to a bot used by informants from the Belarusian Gayun OSINT monitoring project. A fatal technical error lay in the fact that the link with access rights to Gayun's bot, which she had once received—apparently back in 2022—had no expiration date. It's unlikely that Zyl knew this, and it's unlikely that Motoľko remembered it, but nevertheless, even in 2025, it was possible to access the bot and gain access to all the information. This is precisely what ultimately happened. When security forces detained Polina in February 2025 and gained access to her mobile phone, they were able to connect to the bot and extract all the information. They obtained messages from the accounts that had written to the bot, as well as their IDs and usernames.

Polina is 31 years old. She is originally from Yelsk and studied in Mozyr. In 2020, she supported the protests and even received a day's detention. Polina then retreated into the shadows but remained in the country. Both Zyl and Shukanov were wanted by authorities but refused to leave Belarus.

Viktor was born in the Russian Federation, but has Belarusian citizenship. He lived in Ratomka.

The Linkedin page indicates that since 2018, Viktor has worked as a senior communications engineer at customs. This is probably what the criminal case against the man for "abuse of power or official authority" is connected to.

Sergei Terekhovich is 42 years old. He was born and has lived his entire life in Grodno. Until the end of 2016, he served as a senior technician in border unit 2141, which serviced the Bruzgi checkpoint on the Belarusian-Polish border.

The service ended with an incomprehensible incident at the border - Sergei independently opened the barrier and allowed "citizen Terekhovych" to leave the checkpoint.

After 2016, Terekhovych started his own business. Sergey became the director of the company "Seviri Service", which provided funeral services. He also has the status of an individual entrepreneur, the scope of whose activities is designated "Postal and courier activities".

Father Nikolai, 47, was detained along with his wife Elena, 46, and their son Nikita, 24, for participating in the 2020 protest.

Yuri was probably detained at the end of September 2024. At that time, he was convicted under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials). After 15 days, a trial was held again under the same article, so, most likely, he was sentenced to arrest twice, after which he was detained again as part of a criminal case.

According to social networks, Yuriy's wife is Ukrainian. It is known that Yuriy worked in construction for some time, but there is no information about his last place of work.