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Epam employee.
Ekaterina returned from Lithuania, where she left in February 2022.
She was detained along with her sister Yulia Glinskaya in Minsk, where Ekaterina returned to get the cat. The detention was carried out by the GUBOPik; the girls were captured as they walked to their car. The apartment was then searched.
She was released on May 2, 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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55-year-old photographer.
He was forced to leave for Russia due to political persecution in 2020, but due to an expired passport and the outbreak of war, he returned to Belarus in May 2022.
It is known that in September and November 2020, the man posted offensive information on the Telegram channel and Viber messenger against Lukashenko, as well as the Minister of Internal Affairs, who at that time was Yuri Karaev.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Igor Fedorov worked for many years as a mechanical engineer at the Aviation Repair Plant in Baranovichi. But after the events of August 2020, when the man, together with other factory workers, actively expressed his civic position, he was brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 23.34 and Art. 24.3 Code of Administrative Offences. After this, his contract was not renewed, and subsequently Igor was forced to emigrate altogether, fearing criminal prosecution.
On February 27, 2022, he returned home to participate in the referendum. The guy was detained near the polling station and placed in a temporary detention center in Baranavichy. On March 2, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-6.
12/18/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The 36 year old youngest son of the legendary Belarusian businessman from the village of Komarovo, Eduard Voitekhovich, was traveling to his father's funeral from Riga and was arrested by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption right at the border.
He tried to enter Belarus on January 14, 2022, the Belarusian border guards did not let him go for a long time, and then the staff of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption arrived from Minsk and took him to the detention center on the «Okrestina».
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the beginning of October 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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”).
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Director of the Vilna printing house.
She was detained on April 4, 2022 in the case of «railway partisans», after she came from Lithuania to Belarus for the anniversary of her mother's death.
The propaganda film on «BT» shows a piece of Alesya's interrogation, where she tells how she bought Lithuanian SIM cards a few days before her trip to Belarus, shows where she hid them on the territory of the country, how she filmed everything to send to her curator in Lithuania. And also that she had to send young people when they arrived at the border. Finally, she was charged under Part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code - intentional illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus committed by an organized group.
05/03/2024 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
| 14.05.2022 | As of May 10, 2022, she received only three letters from her son, although dozens of letters and postcards were sent by friends and relatives. |
3.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The sentence was reduced by a year due to an amnesty.
Artyom was detained in November 2021, the day after returning to Belarus. He had arrived for a day to take a work assessment and was detained right in his office. He was charged with "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, Artyom was found guilty of participating in mass protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In March 2025, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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A history teacher. He was detained on November 2, 2021 after returning from work in Poland and placed in a temporary detention facility in Minsk. He is a defendant in a criminal case for organizing or actively participating in group actions that grossly violate public order. Arthur has very poor eyesight.
On March 4, 2022, he was released in the courtroom.
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Maxim, a former riot police officer, resigned from the service in 2012 (he had decided to leave back in 2010, after the elections). He later went to live in Poland but was forced to return to Belarus and was detained at his home in the agricultural town of Khotzezhino on August 17, 2021. Following his arrest, GUBOPiK officers recorded a "confessional" video with him, in which he spoke about his involvement in the events of August 9–11, 2020. Pro-government Telegram channels, however, portrayed him as a former security officer who resigned in protest in 2020, which was untrue.
In November 2021, Maxim was found guilty of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" and sentenced to restricted freedom without placement in an open-type facility.
In September 2024, a court hearing was held to discuss the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with a commitment to an open correctional facility. The outcome of the hearing, as well as Maxim's presence, remains unknown.
Ruslan was first detained on August 10, 2020, during a protest in Brest against election fraud. After a brutal beating, he was hospitalized and subsequently sentenced to seven days of administrative arrest. A criminal case was later opened against him, but he fled the country during the investigation.
Upon returning to Belarus, Ruslan attempted to cross the border into the European Union but was detained . In November 2021, he was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
In July 2024, he was convicted again, this time for "malicious disobedience to the demands of the correctional facility administration." This article is used to prosecute prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, based on fictitious violations.
He was released in the summer of 2026, having served his full sentence.
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Gleb is a defendant in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests on August 10, 2020 in Brest against falsifications in the presidential elections. During the investigation, he left the country, and upon returning to Belarus, he was detained while trying to cross the border into the European Union. In November 2021, he was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
He was released in July 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Alexander, a neurologist, worked in Norilsk, Russia. He was detained in May 2021 upon his return to Belarus in connection with a criminal case opened for insulting law enforcement officials.
In January 2022, he was convicted under three criminal articles for comments addressed to 32 officials. As Alexander himself explained, he left them emotionally, since during the August 2020 protests he volunteered near the detention center on Okrestina. In addition to imprisonment, the court ordered him to pay moral compensation in favor of 20 employees. At the hearing, it also became known that one of the victims in the case beat Alexander during his arrest.
In November 2022, he was convicted again under the articles “insulting a government official” and “threatening violence against an official.”
On April 3, 2024, his punishment was increased and he was transferred to prison.
He was released in November 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Andrei is a Russian citizen and a volunteer for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's initiative group. He was first detained on June 6, 2020, in Belarus for participating in a picket to collect signatures, which was considered an unauthorized event. He was soon charged under the article on "preparing and organizing actions that grossly violate public order."
On November 26, 2020, Andrei was taken to the border with Russia and banned from entering Belarus for 10 years. He left behind a wife and two children in the country.
On April 13, 2021, he was detained again in the village of Prusy, where he had secretly come to visit his family. He was later convicted of “illegal border crossing,” although the charges in the previous case were not dropped.
He was released in October 2022 after completing his sentence and deported to Russia.
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Alexander, an activist and well-known Belarusian artist, was arrested in late March 2021 on charges of “rehabilitating Nazism” after he displayed a portrait of Yevgeny Zhikhar with a machine gun over his shoulder at an exhibition at the Grodno City Life Center. The prosecutor’s office claimed that Alexander “characterized Zhikhar as a fighter against the Bolsheviks, glorifying his actions.” Despite the threat of prosecution, Alexander did not cancel his return to Belarus from Ukraine, where his exhibition was taking place.
On March 25, 2022, during the trial, he cut his stomach in protest, for which he received 13 days in solitary confinement. He was later convicted of "inciting hatred or discord" and "desecration of state symbols." The political prisoner refused to file an appeal.
As it became known, in November 2022, Alexander's type of punishment was toughened and he was transferred to prison regime.
On July 11, 2023, Alexander died in intensive care due to untimely medical care for a perforated ulcer.
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Anna, director of the Polish School LLC in Brest, was detained in March 2021 upon her return to Belarus as part of a criminal case on the "glorification of war criminals". The reason for the investigation was an "illegal mass event" in memory of the "damned soldiers" that took place on February 28 in a building rented by the Brest Forum of Polish Local Initiatives and the Polish School.
At the end of May 2021, Anna was released and deported to Poland.