Journalists learned that in 2019, Ilyukhin went to Canada to take up the position of first secretary at the Belarusian embassy.
"In Ottawa, he served as a member of the electoral commission for the 2020 presidential election. According to the official protocol, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won a landslide victory in his precinct, garnering 321 votes (91%) to Alexander Lukashenko's 21 votes (6%)," the publication writes .
In August 2021, Ilyukhin served as consul in New York. He then served as first secretary at the Belarusian Embassy in Washington, D.C. He left the diplomatic service in April 2022. After leaving government service, Dmitry worked at the representative office of the International Federation of Red Cross Societies (IFRC).
Dmitry's arrest likely occurred about a year ago. The nature of the charges and the exact sentence are unknown, but the sentence involves imprisonment .
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unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Organizer of the Urban Myths festival, public figure and street artist.
Oleg Larichev has previously been arrested and prosecuted several times, including for his art activism, including in 2022.
This time, he was detained in connection with a criminal case allegedly related to the detentions of other people allegedly involved in the "extremist group" "Da Zoraў."
The nature of the charges is still being investigated, but it's most likely that Dmitry was imprisoned in connection with the high-profile case of the monitoring channel "Belarusian Gayun," which monitored the actions of Russian troops in Belarus before and during their armed aggression against Ukraine. Dmitry Korneichik's last known employment was at the retail chain OJSC "Avtospace," which sells auto parts and consumables and has stores in various cities across Belarus. Previously, he was a sole proprietor in the professional photography industry.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, unknown basic values fine.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In 2017, Strybulsky was arrested in the high-profile "White Legion case." He was released after 99 days behind bars; the case was closed due to lack of evidence.
The man was also detained in the fall of 2021, when his equipment and “protest symbols” were confiscated.
In 2022, Strybulskag was arrested on March 23, shortly before Freedom Day (March 25). The day after his arrest, he was jailed for 15 days. He later told friends that he had been beaten and effectively tortured with electric shocks during his arrest.
On November 14, 2025, Sergei was arrested again and served two administrative sentences. And on December 12, he was arrested on criminal charges.
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In 2013, he graduated from Yanka Kupala University of Grodno and went to work as a history teacher at a school in Zhemyslavl. Soon after, Sergei became the first secretary of the Ivyevsky District Committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM) and even joined the local executive committee's leadership reserve. In interviews with state-run media, he praised Belarusian stability and organized patriotic events.
However, after 2017, he left education. In February 2025, Pakhomov registered as a sole proprietor, listing roofing work as his primary activity.
In the winter of 2026, it became known that the 37-year-old man was in pretrial detention. He was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("inciting racial, national, religious, or other social hatred"). Although a sentence had not yet been handed down, the KGB had already included him on its list of "terrorists."
The exact reason for the criminal prosecution remains unknown. It's likely due to comments on a Telegram message from an unprotected account.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was declared a member of the "extremist group" "Da Zoraў." The KGB believes he and Semyon Malashenkov are members.
He is known as a musician, a gusli maker, and a member of the group "Stary Olsa." Since 2002, Chumakov has played and sung in the medieval music group "Stary Olsa," using the gusli, flutes, and other ancient instruments. In 2005, he founded the group "Bokal Kola," which performed Belarusian folk dances to the accompaniment of the duda and gusli, but the project was short-lived. Occasionally, the musician performed solo, performing folk dances.
Ales also translated Irish heroic poetry into Belarusian. In the band Ceilidh Ceol, formed in the mid-2000s, he performed ancient Irish songs in Belarusian dedicated to freedom and the memory of ancestors. In 2020, he lent his vocals to the Belarusian dub of the Netflix series The Witcher, performing the well-known song "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" in Belarusian.
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