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A Polish citizen. Roman arrived in Belarus on July 19, 2022, and disappeared. His whereabouts were unknown, and the Southwest search and rescue team launched a search for him. It was later reported that Galuza was alive and his whereabouts had been established, but no further details were provided. However, an acquaintance of Roman's wrote on social media that he was being held in a KGB pretrial detention facility.
In Poland, Galuza graduated from university, received citizenship, and volunteered, including helping Belarusian refugees. Roman's arrest may have been premeditated by Belarusian security forces.
Now he faces up to 15 years in prison.
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
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Igor worked in Poland as an electrician. He was detained while crossing the Polish-Belarusian border.
In a pro-government video, Sorokin says that he went out onto the roadway and blocked traffic. The video is obviously from the protest action on August 10, 2020, which took place in Brest. Specifically, the moment of the skirmish at the intersection of the boulevards and Masherov Avenue.
According to human rights activists, he was released on May 9, 2025.
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Soloist of the group “Minimum Distance”. In the pro-government video, Egeniy says that he participated in protests in 2020, and after the elections “he was relocated along with his office to Ukraine.” After the start of the war, he went to Poland and remained there until his work visa expired, which he was unable to renew in Poland. After that he returned to Belarus.
Security forces show a screenshot of their bot with a denunciation of a detainee and his photo.
After the trial, a video appeared on the same pro-government channel where Evgeniy says that he was sentenced to 3 years of restriction of freedom, after which he decided to confess and “repent” of the donations.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction
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Galina Krasnyanskaya is 67 years old. She comes from Babruisk, probably from a military family - social networks indicate that she was born in the "military town of Kiselevichi". Once there was a large military garrison there and the school was created specifically for the children of the military. After school, she went to Minsk to study to be a chemist at the Belarusian Technological Institute (now BSTU). But after that, Galina worked in military units, if you believe her social networks. For example, from 1981 to 1986 in unit No. 48819, based in the pro-Soviet part of Germany - the GDR.
She probably moved to Sweden later. She must also have Swedish citizenship.
It is unknown when the woman returned to Belarus, but not earlier than spring 2023. The date of detention is also unknown. The article under which Galina is accused most often means a donation to Belarusian volunteers or to help Ukraine.
On June 21, 2025, Galina was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and was immediately taken to Lithuania.
Most likely, the girl was detained upon returning to Belarus, since her Facebook account (now closed) was completely uncleaned. There was a white-red-white flag on the avatar, subscriptions to the “mirror” and “Charter’97” were saved. And the payments included three donations - for 10, 20 and 50 dollars.
Olga graduated from Gomel State University in 2011, she studied to become a mathematical programmer. Her Linkedin profile lists six IT companies for which she has worked. Since August 2020, the girl has been leading a team of testers at the UULA company, registered in Kuwait. However, Olga Blazhevich’s account indicates that she worked in India.
According to security officials, Olga Blazhevich is now in a temporary detention center and the question of what responsibility to bring her to justice is being decided.
Stanislav was detained upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had moved more than a year earlier. He came home in late 2023 to spend the holidays with his family, but was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened after protests on August 10, 2020, in Brest against the falsification of the presidential election. Stanislav was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”
In a pro-government confessional video published, he says that he "participated in protests and went out onto the roadway." The recording shows that Stanislav's face is scratched, although no such damage was visible when he was detained.
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Konstantin was detained in October 2023 upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had most recently lived. He was accused of posting “numerous offensive comments” and later convicted of several online statements that, according to the prosecution, contained negative assessments of Lukashenko. Konstantin was also charged with insulting government officials, but this was dropped due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
In September 2024, he was released under a pardon.
Pro-government Telegram channels reported that Vyacheslav was detained in late July 2023 in Grodno while returning to Belarus from abroad, and that he allegedly left around a thousand comments in "extremist" chats and channels. Vyacheslav is a married resident of Minsk and a paintball enthusiast. According to these channels, security forces were able to identify him because he signed his Telegram account with his real name. The indictment states that he posted comments on the "Real Belarus" channel, and an expert examination concluded that the text contained negative and obscene statements directed at Lukashenko and Putin.
Elena was detained in connection with the “round dance” case. She was returning from Poland to Brest. At passport control, the border guards became interested in the fact that the woman was born in Ukraine. She was handed over to unknown people in civilian clothes who demanded a phone number.
As a result, the woman was detained. After that there was an administrative court (15 days of arrest under Part 2 of Article 19. 11 of the Administrative Code) through two reposts in Telegram. And then the woman was placed in a pre-trial detention center until trial.
It is known that Elena lived in Brest and went to Poland for shopping.
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Detainee Konstantin Bich said in his “repentance” video that he had previously been prosecuted under administrative article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences, and also received a fine for hanging a white-white flag. According to him, and for insulting a police officer on social networks. Pro-government telegram channels report that the man recently returned to Belarus from EU countries. On November 24, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
After Klim’s relative, with whom he was at one of the marches in 2020, was detained in December 2021, Klim decided not to wait for his detention and left for Moscow. A few days later, law enforcement officers came to his parents’ apartment looking for Klim. A year and a half later, summonses from the military registration and enlistment office began to arrive at his Belarusian address, since his deferment from the army had ended. Klim decided to go to the Republic of Belarus and undergo a medical examination. In the summer of 2023, after arriving in Belarus, he was detained by employees of the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control, and during his arrest he was severely beaten. A criminal case was opened against him for participating in protests in 2020; Klim was in custody before the trial.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
Natalia was detained upon her return to Belarus and convicted of “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order” and “calls for sanctions.” Her Telegram account was linked to a personal Belarusian number, so she could be found through her comments.
She was released under a pardon in December 2024.
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Pro-government channels claim that Yevhen "participated in organizing the riots", after which he left Belarus and "posted extremist symbols." Apparently, he was detained upon his return to the country.
Judging by Instagram, Eugene is engaged in electronics and audio equipment. Judging by the video, the security forces considered his photo with Siarhei Tsikhanouski, clearly taken at an official picket and published on May 26, 2020, long before the mass protests and three days before Tsikhanouski was detained, as a “photo from the protests”.
"Extremist symbols" the security forces called the national ornament and the former state emblem "Pursuit". They stated that they detained the man because he "did not repent of his sins, did not suffer punishment and did not apply to the commission on return."
He was detained upon returning to the Republic of Belarus in the fall of 2022. Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
On July 4, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.