Political prisoners

Cook, resident of Novobelitsa.

There are quite a lot of posts and messages about Belarusian security forces and government officials on Igor’s social networks. He was also among the 500 subscribers in 2019 to an appeal to then-Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, which concerned the reburial of the remains of the rebels of 1863-1864 hanged by the tsarist authorities.

It is unknown what punishment the man was given. But it is associated with imprisonment.

On April 26, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

A former “Afghan” and a person with a principled civic position, and his wife Oksana Lisitsa is the director of the Vysochanskaya Basic School and a deputy of the district council of the 28th convocation. Vladimir Lisitsa was born in Ukraine and instead of an avatar on his Odnoklassniki page there is a Ukrainian flag. The contents of this page, which has now been mostly deleted, were studied by the Liozny District Prosecutor's Office, and it decided that “information products on the personal page “Vladimir Lisitsa” on the social network “Odnoklassniki” contains signs of activities aimed at facilitating extremist activities, training or other preparation to participate in such activities.” According to the investigation , Vladimir Lisitsa left comments about several other well-known persons in Belarus: “publicly obscene comments were made to the military commissar of the Gomel region A.V. Krivonosov, deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus A.S. Gaidukevich, chairman of the Glubokoe district executive committee A . N. Shubsky and A. G. Lukashenko."According to the court verdict, Mr. Lisitsa must serve three years in a correctional colony under general regime conditions, and also pay a fine of 7,400 rubles and compensation for moral school to two plaintiffs - the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus A. The Swede and the deputy of the Novopolotsk City Council of Deputies I. Medvedsky - 3,000 rubles each.

In Mogilev, Sobolevsky is known as one of the freelancers who collaborated with city online publications until 2020. Ales was sentenced twice for an administrative violation for a day, after which he was not released.

A businessman detained in the fall of 2023 for calling for sanctions. A criminal case has been initiated against Yuri, he is taken into custody (the place of detention is being specified).

On the air of the pro-government TV channel "Belarus 1" Yuri Olkhovik is presented as "co-founder of the company - the official distributor of global manufacturers." He himself said that he was engaged in the supply of non-destructive testing and chemical analysis equipment, and testing equipment. He wrote a letter to the European company with a request to terminate cooperation with the Belarusian company included in the sanctions list.

He was detained along with his entire family (husband, daughter, son) on suspicion of “treason.” The daughter was apparently later released. The details of the case are unknown.

She worked as a nurse at Gomel City Clinical Hospital No. 3. Larisa Prokhorova is a completely non-public person. She was born in 1975 in Grabovka, where she lived all her life.

Participants in a closed process have non-disclosure agreements. It is known from an unofficial source that the criminal case concerns photographing various objects on the territory of Belarus, and the persons involved in the case were monitored by special services for some time before their arrest.

The Prokhorov family lived for a long time in the village of Grabovka, Gomel region. At the time of their arrest, they lived in the village of Uza, Gomel region, where they moved two years ago.

He was detained along with his entire family (mother, father, sister) on suspicion of “treason.” The sister was apparently later released. Pavel is 27 years old. He was born in Grabovka. Worked in construction.

Participants in a closed process have non-disclosure agreements. It is known from an unofficial source that the criminal case concerns photographing various objects on the territory of Belarus, and the persons involved in the case were monitored by special services for some time before their arrest.

The Prokhorov family lived for a long time in the village of Grabovka, Gomel region. At the time of their arrest, they lived in the village of Uza, Gomel region, where they moved two years ago.

He was detained along with his entire family (wife, daughter, son) on suspicion of “treason.” The daughter was apparently later released. Vasily Prokhorov is 54 years old. He comes from the city of Chernobyl, which was home to the infamous nuclear power plant. It is known that he was injured in the Chernobyl accident. Prokhorov served in the airborne troops. Then he worked on construction sites and moonlighted as a cargo carrier, and also wrote a small blog.

Participants in a closed process have non-disclosure agreements. It is known from an unofficial source that the criminal case concerns photographing various objects on the territory of Belarus, and the persons involved in the case were monitored by special services for some time before their arrest.

The Prokhorov family lived for a long time in the village of Grabovka, Gomel region. At the time of their arrest, they lived in the village of Uza, Gomel region, where they moved two years ago.

It is not known when the man was detained, but the last time he was online on his VKontakte page was on December 29, 2022, although he had previously visited there regularly.

It is known that in 2015 the man lived in Poland. And in 2019 and 2021 he wrote that he lived in Germany, was engaged in artificial intelligence and worked for the German company EDEKA GmbH/WITRON. His main messengers were linked to a German number, and his mailbox was on a German domain, that is, he lived in Germany permanently.

According to CyberPartizan, Novogrodsky has not officially worked in Belarus since 2011 and has three children from different women.

As Nasha Niva writes, Alexey is interested in philosophy and participated in thematic conferences - for example, in April 2021, he gave a report "Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence" at the scientific conference "Philosophy and Challenges of Modernity", which was organized by the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

The press service said in a statement that the man convicted in March-April 2022 posted messages in an "extremist" chat aimed at "exacerbating tensions in society and destabilizing the situation in the Republic of Belarus." He also wrote "negative messages and comments that discredit the Republic of Belarus" and insult officials and Lukashenko.

German partially admitted his guilt in court.

On December 18 , 2024, the Bobruisk District Court and Bobruisk will hear Alexey's case "on transfer to a different type of correctional facility and change of regime conditions."

In 2016, Nadezhda graduated from the Minsk State Linguistic University with a degree in foreign language teaching. She worked as a translator for over a year and then moved to IT, where she worked in testing. In November 2023, Nadezhda was detained.

Alexander is accused of participating in protests and of being involved with the "Pismo.bel" service, which allowed people to send letters to political prisoners. His brother, artist Vladimir Lykshin, was detained along with him.

According to preliminary information from former cellmates, the brothers are charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On March 18, 2024, the Sovietsky District Court of Minsk held a trial for the brothers, as well as Alexander's wife, Elizaveta . Judge Alexander Yakunchikhin sentenced them all to 2.5 years of house arrest.

Was detained again   at the end of 2024 under Part 1 of Article 361. Before the trial, he was held in ST-8, then in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1, and awaited appeal in ST-4.

Detained for donations. Was awarded in the category “Best Graduate of BSU” 2018. After her arrest, Ksenia was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center for several months, after which she was transferred to pre-trial detention center-1, and then to pre-trial detention center-3.

On June 4, 2024, Ksenia’s appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.

Larisa, an English tutor, was arrested in late August 2023. She was initially convicted under an administrative case for “distribution, production and storage of extremist materials,” but later a criminal case was opened, in which she was convicted of “assisting extremist activity.”

A father of many children, allegedly detained for administering the “Solidarity Ivatsevichi” chat in 2020.

He worked as a taxi driver.

In addition to imprisonment, Vitaly was awarded a fine of 40,000 rubles.

On 05/03/2024 the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.