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In custody: 923 days
folder Categories of cases: Registration as a volunteer
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth 03.08.2003
Address for letters: IK №2, 213800, Bobruysk, ul. Sikorskogo, 1
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The guy studied at the 1st year, but after February 24, 2022, according to his confession at the trial, he became less interested in studying. And I began to look for options to help the Ukrainian side win.

During the court interrogation, the guy stated his version: he decided to get to Ukraine in order to provide any assistance that might be needed. But the priority in assistance would be: first of all medical, then logistical, technical.

In Bobruisk on June 6, 2023, a guy was tried under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code for "malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of the correctional institution." The verdict is unknown.

Trial outcome 30.08.2022:

2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

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.
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In custody: 935 days
folder Categories of cases: Return to Belarus
Hometown: Hrodna
Date of birth 26.08.1993
Address for letters: IK No. 1, 211440, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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Political activist from Grodno. In 2017, he spoke at protests related to the introduction of a “tax on parasitism.” In 2019, I set up a tent in front of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Grodno to solve the housing problem. In 2020, Lavrentiev, together with activist Nikolai Solyanik, held a number of actions for the introduction of quarantine in Belarus during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the 2020 presidential elections, the activist was serving administrative arrest for an action during a meeting with Sergei Tikhanovsky. In the fall of 2020, he left Belarus for Poland.

In Poland, he volunteered to help two Belarusian refugees. but in December 2020, Alexander disappeared from a rented apartment in Bialystok. The girls' money also disappeared with him. He did not answer calls or messages. He told his friend that he calmly crossed the Polish-Belarusian border, but his case in Belarus was closed due to lack of evidence. In 2021, Alexander purchased a food truck and worked in one of the microdistricts of Grodno. I was selling shawarma. On May 2, 2022, Lavrentyev was detained right at his workplace. Detained by the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Grodno Region. After the arrest, the Grodno resident said on camera that he was detained for distributing extremist information online and insulting the president. He admitted guilt.

On October 11, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.

In the summer of 2024, it became known that Grodno resident Alexander Lavrentiev was given another 1 year of imprisonment in a colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution”).

Trial outcome 02.08.2022:

4 years 4 months imprisonment in a 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.
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In custody: 1337 days
Hometown: Pinsk
Date of birth 27.03.1985
Address for letters: IK-20, 247755, Gomelslaya obl., Mozyrski rayon, Mikhaolovsky selsovet, 70
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Accused of preparing terrorist attacks in Chizhovka and a military unit in Pechi on the eve of Freedom Day in 2021.

The actions that the security forces attribute to him became the basis for the inclusion of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Anton Motolko and participants in the initiative of former security forces   on the list of terrorists and criminal proceedings against them for preparing an act of terrorism.

A case was brought against Vyacheslav for “malicious disobedience to the requirements of the colony administration” under Art. 411 CC. The trial took place on February 10, 2023. A year of imprisonment was imposed.

Vyacheslav was tried on August 23, 2023 under Part 2 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code in Gorki and sentenced him to a total term of two more years of imprisonment; based on the totality of the sentences of the unserved part at the time of the trial (20 years and 5 months) and the new sentence (2 years), he still has 22 years and 5 months left to serve from the moment of the third trial.

On August 7, Mozyr judge Anatoly Strelchenko will conduct another trial under Article 411 of Vyacheslav.

Trial outcome 23.08.2023:

Based on the sum of 3 sentences from the moment of detention, Vyacheslav was sentenced to 25 years to be served in a penal colony under strict security conditions.

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Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Dashkevich
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In custody: 975 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth 20.07.1981
Number of children: 4 children
Address for letters: IK-14, 222125, Minsk region, s.n.p. Novosady, ul. Mira 1A
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Dmitry Dashkevich is one of the most famous political figures in Belarus. He has been involved in public activities since 2001. He was the leader of the "Young Front" and served long prison terms several times for political activities in Belarus. Dashkevich is also one of the organizers of the "Night of Shot Poets" and "Defense of Kurapaty" campaigns.

After the 2020 elections, Dashkevich remained, perhaps, the only public opposition politician who remained in Belarus.

He was detained on March 23, 2022, sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article, during which time a criminal case was opened against Dmitry and after 15 days he was left in custody.

In July 2023, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Dmitry for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of the correctional institution” (Article 411 of the Criminal Code). On October 18, Judge Tatyana Derevyanko sentenced Dmitry to another year in a maximum-security penal colony.

In January 2024, the political prisoner was transferred again to IK No. 14. In the colony, he was placed in a punishment cell, where it is terribly cold. During the night, Dmitry has to get up to eight times to do exercises and somehow warm up. For this, they write reports about him not lying down after lights out.

At the end of May 2024, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Dmitry.

Dmitry was charged with "people's" article 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order), as well as part 1 of article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration) and was again sentenced to a new term.

Trial outcome 14.07.2022: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Trial outcome 19.10.2023: 1 year of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.

Appeal 19.12.2023: the sentence was upheld.

Trial outcome 27.09.2024: 1 year 3 months of imprisonment in colony in strict 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.
Oleg Anatolevich Konovalov
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In custody: 1047 days
folder Categories of cases: Zeltser's case, Return to Belarus
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth 08.07.1985
Address for letters: Turma №4, Mogilev, Krupskaya 99A, 212011
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The owner of the YouTube channel “Third Region Belarus” was detained on January 10, 2022, when he returned to Belarus for the holidays.

He is accused of de-anonymizing the security forces and, after leaving for Ukraine, he continued to “post anti-state information on social networks and promote resistance to government officials.”

The man uploaded videos to his channel from solidarity rallies of Belarusians in Kyiv. He is also accused of making cynical comments about the deceased KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk.

On July 18, 2023, the Shklovsky District Court considered Oleg’s case under Part 2 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Oleg was transferred to prison regime.

Trial outcome 07.09.2022:

5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.

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.
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In custody: 1270 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth 10.01
Address for letters: IK-11, Volkovysk, Rokossovskogo, 118, 231900
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in custody since June 1, 2021. He refused a lawyer, because he is confident that he will be able to successfully defend himself.

Andrei Novitsky was found guilty of taking part in the marches on September 27, 2020, holding a BCHB flag in his outstretched arms, and publicly shouting slogans. He also took part in the march on October 11 on the street. Kalvariyskaya and others. Pobediteley, where, among other things , he "put a BCHB flag on his shoulders and demonstrated a clenched fist with an outstretched hand." He is accused of such actions in connection with the events of October 25. He was also found guilty of insulting Lukashenka on YouTube no later than December 7, 2020. Andrey Novitsky was also convicted for the fact that, no later than January 27, 2021, he acquired a bulk substance and illegally stored and transported it without notifying the authorized bodies.

On June 13, 2022, a trial under Article 411 took place in the court of the Bobruisk district and the city of Bobruisk, as a result of which the political prisoner was given four more months of imprisonment and the regime was changed from enhanced to strict.

On January 17, 2023, the political prisoner was again tried under Art. 411 of the Criminal Code. The verdict is unknown.

Trial outcome:

5 years and 4 months in prison under enhanced regime.

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In custody: 343 days
Hometown: Buda-Koshelevo
Date of birth 07.05.1973
Address for letters: GU "Rnpts Psikhicheskogo Zdorov'ya", Dolginovsly trakt, 152, 220053, Minsk, Belarus
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The meeting was held behind closed doors. Vesna learned that the reason for initiating the case was that Kovalev, while in the hospital, called Alexander Lukashenko a “moron”. At the trial, he said that "a dictator is worse than a moron, and Lukashenka calls himself a dictator."

28.06. 2022 Yuri was sentenced under Article 411 to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. On July 1, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence. Yury will be at large until the second sentence comes into force.

Trial outcome 22.07.2021:

1 year in prison.

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Elena Petrovna Gnauk
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In custody: 1046 days
folder Categories of cases: The case of round dances, Brest, 2020
Hometown: Pruzhany
Date of birth 16.03.1957
Guardian: Alina Kharisova
Address for letters: IK-24, ul. Proizvodstvennaya, 44, g.p. Zarechye, Rechitsky r-n, Gomel obl., 247526
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activist from Pruzhany. Elena was sentenced in the "round dance case" to 2 years of restriction of freedom without a referral. After that, she was re-convicted for "insulting the president", the total term was 3 years of "home chemistry". On January 11, 2022, she was detained and given 15 days of arrest for violating the regime of serving "home chemistry". After the arrest, Elena was not released; a new criminal case was opened against her. She was convicted for posting on social networks Facebook and Instagram and sent to a colony for 3.5 years. At the initiative of the administration of the Gomel colony, a criminal case was opened against Elena under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. In addition, she was deprived of almost all programs, calls, dates, and the otovarka was reduced from three basic units to one (32 rubles).

Trial outcome 07.05.2021:

4.5 years in prison.

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Tikhon Sergeevich Osipov
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In custody: 1561 day
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth 31.01.1996
Address for letters: IK-20, 247755, Gomelslaya obl., Mozyrski rayon, Mikhaolovsky selsovet, 70
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Charges indicted: attempted murder of two policemen during protests on August 11, 2020 at the 'Pushkinskaya' metro station . As comes from investigation, commited an aimed hitting onto military policemen. Can be sentensed up to 25 years inprisoning. 

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Trial outcome:

11 years in a medium-security prison

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Dmitry Dmitrievich Korneev
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In custody: 1550 days
Hometown: Dobrush
Date of birth 05.06.1995
Address for letters: Turma №1, Grodno, Kirova 1, 230023
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Convicted under Articles 293, 295-3 and 364 of the Criminal Code. He is on the case with Nikita Zolotarev.

Those wishing to make a monetary donation for him, please indicate as the sender the name of his mother, Smyk Elena Aleksandrovna

Trial outcome 22.02.2021:

8 years in a maximum-security prison

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.
Viktor Evgenievich Borushko
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In custody: 1496 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth 30.03.1988
Address for letters: IK-9, Gorki, 213410, ul. Dobroliubova, 16
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Convicted under Article 147 of the Criminal Code for allegedly tripping up a riot policeman. He was severely beaten and hospitalized. At the trial he spoke of inhuman torture he was subjected to while in detention.

Trial outcome:

5 years in a medium-security prison

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In custody: 1566 days
Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth 20.10.1993
Address for letters: Turma №8, Zhodino, Sovetskaya ul. 22A, 222163
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A verdict was handed down in a closed trial for possession of weapons and participation in mass riots. Answering journalists' questions, Alexey Melnikov said that he only partially admitted his guilt - for possession of weapons. He also does not know why and on whose initiative the trial was held behind closed doors. As for the charge of preparing for riots, according to the accused, this is a witch hunt. At the end of December 2021, it became known that Alexey was transferred from Penal Colony No. 22 to Investigative Prison No. 8 and that the regime was changed to a prison one.

In the fall of 2024, he was convicted under Article 411 of the Criminal Code .

Trial outcome date unknown: 7 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 50 basic values fine.

Regime change trial date unknown: 3 years of prison regime.

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In custody: 943 days
Hometown: Minsk
Was in: IK-2IK №2, 213800, Bobruysk, ul. Sikorskogo, 1
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According to the investigation, on October 12, 2020, at about 21:00, Zaikovsky, in a state of alcoholic intoxication on Dzerzhinsky Avenue with other unidentified persons, resisted police officers, threatened them with violence, and threw a beer glass towards the police bus.

He did not admit his guilt.

On October 20, 2022, in colony No. 2, the consideration of the case against Alexander under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus

In December 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.

Trial outcome:

2 years in prison in a general regime colony + compulsory treatment for alcoholism

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In custody: 1168 days
Hometown: Zhlobin
Date of birth 07.01.2001
Was in: IK-8IK-8, 211388, Vitebsk region, Orsha, ul. Lenina, 195A
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According to investigators, he was a participant in mass riots in Zhlobin. In June 2022, he was transferred to prison regime.

In July 2023, Evgeniy was added six months to his sentence under Art. 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On February 1, 2024, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.

27.06.2021 escorted 2 or 3.07 (according to the mother)

Trial outcome 13.07.2023:

3.5 years in prison in a strict regime colony.

Ruslan Vladimirovich Okostko
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In custody: 1347 days
Hometown: Malye Zavshicy
Date of birth 17.05.1990
Was in: IK-9IK-9, Gorki, 213410, ul. Dobroliubova, 16
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He was detained on November 15, 2020 and arrested for 15 days of administrative arrest for walking through the entire city with a white-red-white flag in memory of the murdered Roman Bondarenko , who was beaten by security forces in the courtyard near his home and died in the hospital from cerebral edema. However, after the arrest, Ruslan was not released, as a criminal case was opened against him, as a result of which he was convicted of "resisting an Interior Ministry officer."

On March 18, 2022, he was re -sentenced for "disobeying the demands of the administration of a correctional institution" to one year in prison.

At the end of July 2024, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome 18.03.2022:

by adding up the terms: 4 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony

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