Political prisoners

In the pro-government film (April 2024), it was said that six teenagers allegedly united in the “anarchist cell “Black Nightingales,” which “under the leadership of the National Liberation Army of Ukraine” was created by 16-year-old Ukrainian citizen Maria Misyuk.

ONT employees claim that the teenagers united to carry out sabotage on a tip in Belarus, and then in Russia. Maria is accused under Part 2 of Art. 289 of the Criminal Code (act of terrorism). According to the story, 16-year-old Maria Misyuk moved with her family from Ukraine to Belarus in 2022, where she created an “anarchist cell for preparing terrorist attacks.” Among the detainees are college students in Baranovichi, Nesvizh, Mir, Minsk and Luninets. These are Trofim Borisov , Sergei Zhigalev, Dmitry Zahoroshko, Anastasia Klimenko and Alexandra Pulinovich. According to ONT employees, young people gathered at the Baranovichi apartment to prepare for their first serious action - to collect explosives and blow up the Baranovichi police department or prosecutor's office. It is unknown under what charges the remaining five participants are accused. As well as their status and location are unknown.

According to the authors of the pro-government film, Daniil Garasim, born in 2005 in December 2023, on the instructions of the “Ukrainian curator”, contact with whom was established in an extremist Telegram chat, filmed the location of the missile brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus in the city of Osipovichi, Mogilev region. But it is noteworthy that the security forces made operational filming from the very first task; the question arises as to who the task came from.

Yegor Volkov is 55 years old. He is from Minsk and attended School No. 50. He later graduated from the Minsk Radiotechnical Institute (now the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics).

Volkov began his business in the 1990s. His field is known to be cargo transportation, including liquid cargo. His business is quite large, with his company's fleet numbering up to a hundred trucks.

According to pro-government media, Yegor was tried for donating 11,100 USD in cryptocurrency to the Kalinovsky Regiment from 2022 to 2023, as well as for taking photos from protests.

On July 23, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

On April 14, 2026, he was not released from prison according to his sentence. As of April 2026, he was in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1; apparently, a new criminal case had been opened against Yegor.

On April 18, 2024, the government telegram channel published a video about the detention of a Brest resident for participating in the 2020 protest. On camera, Dmitry says that at the protest people “used paving stones, broke benches, built barricades.” The authors of the channel do not specify under what article Postnikov is accused.

Most likely he was detained in the summer of 2023. In 2013, Arthur opened his own business store, Grandbazaare, where he sold branded clothing and shoes. The VKontakte group has more than 40 thousand subscribers. In recent years, his company has specialized in the Under Armor brand. And from 2023, he translated the pages of his business into the Belarusian language.

Arthur is interested in sports, but especially football, and even previously played in amateur leagues as a goalkeeper. He uses football players and other athletes as photos for his avatars on social networks.

In addition to imprisonment, Arthur was awarded a fine of 700 basic units.

It has become known that Elena's regime has been changed and she is now in a penal colony.

Photos from the protests found on her phone served as the pretext for her arrest. Elena's business was also destroyed.

According to the testimony of former political prisoners, Elena's sentence is approximately 2 years.

It is known that Elena began taking antidepressants while still in pretrial detention. Initially, she received no letters from her family, no money transfers, and no packages. She has a son; he was 10 years old at the beginning of 2026.

According to the investigation, from October 2020 to February 2022, the 74-year-old man systematically posted comments under photographs of government officials, where, “without mincing words, he insulted, publicly humiliated and discredited their honor and dignity.” During a search, ammunition was found at his home. The pensioner told investigators that he collected them.

It is alleged that Kireychik “insulted” as many as 135 security officials - employees of the KGB, the prosecutor's office, the police, the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Defense and the judicial system.

On April 17, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

On August 9, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

51-year-old Sergei Zabelich from Minsk, graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. Judging by Linkedin, he worked as a programmer for at least twenty years. In September 2022, he moved from Nikta Technologies to Intrahealth, an HTP resident operating in the Canadian market.

It is known that Sergei was detained on December 13, 2020, when people went out together for street marches. On this day, another 300 Belarusians were detained.

He is accused of two counts of “financing extremist activities, committed repeatedly” and “financing the activities of an extremist formation.” He faces up to eight years in prison.

On June 7, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

According to data received at different times from sources , it is known that the man was searched on December 1, 2021. And in September 2022, Chopik was first detained under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences, but when it turned out that the man simply did not have a phone where there could be some “extremist materials”, they drew up a report under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The pretext for the protocol was a black-and-white flag taped from the inside to the window of the house - only the man himself claimed that the flag appeared after he was detained and taken to the temporary detention facility.

The last round of escalation between Chopik and the security forces occurred in early March 2024: the Brest resident was detained again. After the arrest, the man was taken to the ambulance with signs of severe beating, and Chopik’s complexion was yellow (which may indicate liver damage due to the beating). On March 28, 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that it had placed the Brest resident in a pre-trial detention center. Based on the man’s age and history (“he systematically attended criminal courts”), we can conclude that we are talking about Vitaly Chopik. He is suspected of “promoting extremist activities.”