Political prisoners

Marina is a Belarusian-speaking IT specialist from EPAM who is also involved in creative work. She writes articles for the Belarusian Wikipedia, makes illustrations, translates into Belarusian, and writes poetry. After the start of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, she moved to Georgia, but then returned to Belarus for unknown reasons. Soon after, she was detained as part of a criminal case and convicted under the articles “financing extremist activity” and “financing or other financial support of war.”

Alesya Sergeenko has been in a pre-trial detention center since the end of January as part of a criminal case (presumably she is charged with “promoting extremism”). She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.

It is also known that on February 21, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Mogilev considered the case under Decree No. 7 “On foreign gratuitous assistance” against Alesya. “Decree No. 7” is used in Belarus to judge those people against whom a mass raid was carried out at the end of January 2024. Then the KGB officers tried to find out who received food aid from abroad as part of the activities of the INeedHelp organization, recognized as a so-called “extremist formation.”
Alesya Sergeenko has two children - 3 and 16 years old. Her husband, Maxim Sergeenko, is a political prisoner who in April 2021 received a sentence of 3 years in prison from the Kruglyansky District Court.

She was detained on January 23, 2024 during a massive raid by security forces on relatives of political prisoners and people who helped them.

Alexey Kiselyov was detained from Verkhnedvinsk in the criminal case of the “Personnel Reserve for New Belarus”. His “repentance” video was published on the morning of March 13 by a propaganda telegram channel. Alexey is an employee of the Verkhnedvinsk regional executive committee.
On February 14, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against representatives and participants of the “Personnel Reserve for New Belarus” initiative announced by the Joint Transitional Cabinet. The ONT TV channel later showed 14 people detained in this case. Propagandist Igor Tur said that together with the security forces, he listened to lectures for participants in the initiative for a year.

The “Personnel Reserve for a New Belarus” program was launched by the Joint Transitional Cabinet in November 2022. The goal of the project was to train professionals who would be able to work in government positions and carry out reforms.

On February 14, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against representatives and participants of the “Personnel Reserve for New Belarus” initiative announced by the Joint Transitional Cabinet. The ONT TV channel later showed 14 people detained in this case. Propagandist Igor Tur said that together with the security forces, he listened to lectures for participants in the initiative for a year.
On February 26, pro-government channels published a video with the participation of Alexander Kuksa, where he admitted to participating in this program.
The “Personnel Reserve for a New Belarus” program was launched by the Joint Transitional Cabinet in November 2022. The goal of the project was to train professionals who would be able to work in government positions and carry out reforms.

On July 19, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

On 13.08.2024 a new trial of Alexander should begin under Article 361-3, Part 2

According to a pro-government Telegram channel, she was detained along with her son for participating in protests in 2020. On March 6, 2024, she was convicted under an administrative article ( Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus - Petty hooliganism). After that, she was charged under criminal articles.

According to the case materials , on February 27, 2022, the man filmed flights of military aircraft and sent the video to the so-called. "extremist formation". Where exactly the video was sent was not specified.

In a pro-government video, Ivan says that he was detained for “unfriendly” comments regarding government officials and police officers on Youtube and Telegram. According to the security forces, he was also registered in the Peramoga plan.

Citizen of Poland. It is known that on July 19, 2022, Roman arrived in Belarus and disappeared: nothing was known about his whereabouts, and the South-West search and rescue team announced a search for him. Later it became known that Galuza was alive and his whereabouts had been established - without any details. But an acquaintance of Roman wrote on social networks that he was in a KGB pre-trial detention center.

In Poland, Galuza graduated from university, received citizenship, and volunteered, including helping Belarusian refugees. Roman’s detention could have been planned in advance by the Belarusian security forces.

Now he faces up to 15 years in prison.

An EPAM employee. It is known that Kirill was involved in sketching (a modern form of fine art): his last works were published in the fall, and in January he congratulated his subscribers on the New Year. He was detained after arriving in Belarus from Montenegro. Convicted for donations.

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

On March 1, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

General Director of GeosIdeal LLC.

On June 18, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

On September 15, 2023, 57-year-old Gennady Vasilyuk was fined for "distributing extremist materials." Subscriptions to "extremist" materials were found on Gennady's Odnoklassniki page. In addition, Vasilyuk was fired from the locomotive depot "by mutual agreement."

On December 7, 2023, Gennady was detained as part of a criminal case for "slandering Lukashenko" (Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code) and placed in custody in a pretrial detention center. The case was heard on February 22 and 26, 2024.

The man was accused of posting the "like" reaction on the Odnoklassniki social network on June 8, 9, and 17, 2022, under three videos featuring economist Yaroslav Romanchuk.

Gennady admitted his guilt and reported that on the specified days in June he went to a village in the Zhabinka district, which is confirmed by an extract from a mobile operator. The man uses a push-button phone, so he could not log into Odnoklassniki in the village.

Prosecutor Yegor Kronda considered Gennady's guilt to be fully proven and requested one year and six months of imprisonment for him.

Gennady was convicted for the second time on September 16, 2024, for participating in protests. His wife and three other people were convicted along with him. According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped their hands, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and went out onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.

The court sentenced Gennady to one and a half years in prison, but taking into account the unserved previous (political) term, the final sentence was only 2 years in a general regime prison.