Political prisoners

Evgeniy is 40 years old, he graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs more than 15 years ago and managed to work as a district police officer, but quit of his own free will. Later, Alexey moved to IT. Subsequently, he lived in Europe, in Italy, for some time. He was detained while trying to enter Belarus - the man wanted to come to his mother's birthday and issue a power of attorney. A criminal case has reportedly been opened against Evgeniy Tikhonov for comments in a telegram about security forces and Lukashenko under three articles.

On June 28, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

On August 11, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

Dmitry is 21 years old and, judging by his social networks, last May he completed his military service in military unit 3214 in Minsk. In May, the guy was added to the "terrorist list" of the KGB. He faces 8 to 12 years in prison.

During the brutal detention, Dmitry was severely beaten .

22-year-old resident of Svetlogorsk. Maxim is being tried “for organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in the activities of such an organization.” Maxim was found guilty of joining an “extremist formation” (the “Victory” plan) and planning to blow up the railway in the Svetlogorsk region. The state publication writes that in order to stop the war in Ukraine, the miniature “was ready to do anything.” When the guy arrived at the railway, he was ambushed by security forces and was detained.

Government agencies did not report anything about this case. The trial is closed.

On September 19, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

At the beginning of October 2022, in the Moscow district of the capital, unknown persons hung a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine on a power line support. Only the next day a post appeared on Anton Mot’s Telegram channel with a photo of the flag and the caption: “Minsk residents congratulate the Ukrainian people on the wonderful news from the Crimean bridge. Crime is Ukraine! Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine!” During operational search activities, police officers detained six Minsk residents aged 34 to 36 years who allegedly did this. Including Vladimir.

Savelyev said in a pro-government video that the action was organized in support of Ukrainians: “This is support for civilians who are dying in an unnecessary war.”

On September 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

The circumstances of the case, except for the verdict, are still unknown to human rights activists.

The accused Eremenko was found guilty of deliberate actions aimed at inciting ethnic and other social hatred on the basis of national and other social affiliation. He was also found guilty of knowingly putting another person at risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

The reason for the criminal case was comments in the “Grodno 97” chat.

In October 2023, it became known that at IUOT-39 Yuri was under pressure from the administration of the institution, and he was given 4 penalties. On October 25, 2023, the Krupsky District Court made a decision to tighten the regime. Yuri from IUOT was sent to serve the remainder of his sentence in a colony.

On July 18, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict entered into force

Former head of the Air Intelligence Service. Convicted by the Criminal Division of the Vitebsk Regional Court under Article 356 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus – treason. The case was heard behind closed doors from March 28 to May 15, 2023. Valery's exact sentence is unknown, but former political prisoners have reported it to be more than seven years.

In December 2022, the Belarus 1 television channel aired a documentary about the KGB's counterintelligence service, featuring Belarusians and citizens of other countries accused of working for foreign intelligence agencies. Valery Romanovsky was described in the film as a "former head of the air reconnaissance service." The Belarus 1 report claims that during his service, a relative from Lithuania "introduced" the suspect to agents of the country's State Security Department. Romanovsky photographed official documents for them, and once, according to the film, passed on information about the construction of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant to the intelligence services.

The man was accused of, in the court's opinion, leaving an offensive comment in a telegram addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov and the Deputy Chief of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central District Administration of Minsk, Chief of the Criminal Police Vladimir Kubrakov. Alexander fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions. Before the trial, the man was under personal surety. After the verdict was announced, he was taken into custody in the courtroom.

Alexander Borovik has a minor child in his care. He works as a carpenter-machine operator.

In January 2024, it became known that Pavel was again accused, but this time under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

The lawyer was detained at the end of January and is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 on Volodarsky. After the arrest, the lawyer’s profile was removed from the website of the Republican Bar Association. It later became known that on April 21, 2023, his license was revoked.

On September 8, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

47 year old Oleg was born in Krasnoyarsk, but in 2000 he moved to Belarus and has already received citizenship. 

In the film on the ONT TV channel, they showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 at Oleg's house in the «Berezovaya Roshcha» garden association in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).

Sychev with his wife Nastya Pilko was detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.

According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.

Dmitry Mostovoy is 45 years old. He is a resident of Sinitsa, studied at the Polytechnic College in Minsk, a professional programmer.

He was detained during the protests in October 2020, and he was sentenced to several days of arrest.

Dmitry was detained in early March 2023. In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch» on the ONT TV channel, released on April 05, 2023. It was said in the film that Dmitry offered the telegram chat «Belarusian Gayun» to merge information about the airfield in Machulishchi: he set up an online broadcast from a computer, where all the actions taking place at the airfield for two weeks without a break were shown.

Now the man is in jail on charges of treason to the state and facilitation extremist activities.