he is a journalist, editor of special projects of ABW.bу.
He was detained for participating in protest actions 2020.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
He is a journalist, he was detained on May 26, 2022 after a search.
At the moment, the journalist has been charged, but the exact criminal article incriminated by Lyubenchuk is unknown (the lawyer is under a non-disclosure agreement).
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The director of the newspaper «Belarusians and the Market», was detained on May 18, 2022 after a search in the editorial office.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
«Intex-press» journalist from Baranovichi.
He was detained on April 27, 2022. On April 29, he was sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
About a week after the journalist's detention, a fragment of a video from his interrogation and information about the reason for Gontsarevich's detention appeared in the telegram channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus: he allegedly photographed Russian military equipment and sent pictures to the media, recognized by the Belarusian authorities as extremist.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He is an independent journalist, works for «Radio Svaboda».
He was detained on November 25, sentenced to 10 days of arrest, but on December 5 he was not released and again received 10 days of arrest. But on December 15, Andrei was not released, having received another 10 days of arrest. Then a criminal case was opened against him.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He is an investigative journalist, editor of the Belarusian portal «Ezhednevnik» (ej.by ).
Was detained on December 8, 2021. Earlier, Sergei had already been detained in the period from March 25 to April 4, 2020.
Some human rights organizations regarded the repression as evidence of a political motive in the persecution of a journalist aimed at forcing him to stop or change the nature of his activities to disseminate information about corruption.
The reason for the prosecution of the journalist, according to Satsuk's colleagues, were high-profile investigations, primarily concerning large-scale corruption in the medical field. Based on the facts obtained, he told about unprecedented «kickbacks» for the supply of expensive equipment; about the purchase of an unregistered vaccine, which was actually tested on Belarusian children; about falsification of data on the spread of COVID-19 in Belarus. And all this with the approval of the control department — the Ministry of Health.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
On October 30, Irina was detained at the Minsk airport when she and her husband were returning from vacation. On November 1, they were both sentenced by Pervomaisky District Judge Maksim Trusevich to 15 days of arrest for allegedly storing materials on Facebook that were deemed "extremist." On November 15, for the second time in a row, journalist Irina Slavnikova was punished with another 15 days of arrest. On November 26, it became known that Irina Slavnikova became a suspect under Article 342 of the Criminal Code.
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Former director of the BelaPAN news agency. He was detained on July 18 after a search and interrogation at the Investigative Committee. On August 28, 2021, he was transferred to SIZO-1.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony.
director of the news agency BelaPAN. On the morning of August 18, 2021, they came to her with a search. Then they took me to the agency's office for a search, and then for interrogation. Searches also took place at the homes of other BelaPAN journalists.
4 years in prison
Belarusian philosopher and methodologist, public and political figure, founder of the Flying University. He was detained on August 4, 2021 after a house search as part of a criminal case.
On February 13, in the court of the Shklovsky district, a trial was held to change the detention regime for Vladimir and transfer him to a prison regime.
5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Political scientist, founder and editor of the site of the expert community "Our Opinion", editor and author of the "Belarusian Yearbook" and head of the group of monitoring experts "Belarus in Focus".
Valeria was detained on June 30, 2021 after a search of her house. The search was carried out by the KGB. She was placed in a temporary detention center, from there she was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 on Volodarsky.
The case was considered behind closed doors, so the details are unknown.
10 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Works at TUT.BY since 2008. At first she was a legal adviser and then became a director. In 2017, Lyudmila headed Tut By Media. The trial in closed session lasted more than two months - a total of 37 sessions were held. The essence of the charges against Chekina is unknown.
12 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Journalist. Marina Zolotova joined Tut.by in 2004 and soon became its editor-in-chief. The trial in closed session lasted more than two months - a total of 37 sessions were held. The charge of "tax evasion on an especially large scale" was dropped from Marina. But the essence of the charges against Zolotova is unknown.
12 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Grodno journalist, member of the Union of Poles of Belarus, publicist. The journalist and activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus was accused of inciting hatred and calling for sanctions. Andrey was detained on March 25, 2021. The indictment against the journalist states that Poczobut in the media called the USSR attack on Poland in 1939 an aggression. In addition, he was accused of statements in defense of the Polish minority in Belarus, articles in Gazeta Wyborcza about Belarusian protests in 2020, and a text in Magazyn Polski written in 2006 and dedicated to Anatoly Rodionik, one of the commanders of the Polish anti-communist underground in the Grodno region.
Pochobut spent more than 1.5 years in a pre-trial detention center. In October he was added to the “terrorist list.” It is known that Poczobut was offered to write a petition for pardon, but he refused.
Today he has been in the punishment cell almost continuously for six months. In IK-1 (Novopolotsk) he is regularly put under pressure, deprived of visits and transfers. Also, there are no calls from Andrey.
8 years of imprisonment in a colony.
Denis lives in Grodno, married. He has been working as a volunteer editor of the Belarusian version of the website of the International Investigative Community InformNapalm since 2014, as well as a freelance correspondent for the newspaper “Novy Chas” since 2018. He is known for his investigations into the influence of the “Russian world” on Belarus and Syria, about the scandalous development in Kurapaty, as well as about the transition of former Ukrainian Berkut officers to the security forces of Belarus.
On March 12, 2021, journalist Denis Ivashin was detained by KGB officers for interfering with police activities. The security forces conducted a search in the journalist's apartment. Also that evening, a search was carried out at Denis’s mother’s house, and on March 15 they came to search his 95-year-old grandmother.
In mid-March 2022, human rights activists also learned that the KGB was accusing Ivashin of collaborating with Ukrainian intelligence. On August 15, the trial of the journalist began behind closed doors in the Grodno Regional Court.
The wife of a political prisoner said that they had repeatedly tried to compromise Denis by transferring him to a cell with people who had a low social status behind bars. However, relatives note, Denis quickly adapts to external conditions and studies internal rules and traditions. In April 2023, it became known that the relatives of the political prisoner were allegedly threatened to stop any communication with him if they did not stop disseminating information about Denis.
At the end of June 2023, the journalist was transferred to prison regime in Zhodino. The wife of the political prisoner, Olga, noted that neither the relatives nor the lawyer knew about the regime change trial. He is now in Zhodino prison No. 8, and for the first six months he will be kept under strict regime.
In April 2024, it became known from the political prisoner’s wife, Olga, that Denis had been deprived of his transfers . She also noted that now, in order to send vitamins to a prison or colony, it is necessary to obtain special permission from the doctor of the medical unit of the institution. Previously, this rule only applied to essential medications.
13 years 1 month in prison.
In July 2023, it became known that Denis was secretly tried and transferred to a strict prison regime.
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