Andrei was arrested and convicted of "assisting extremist activity" in a criminal case opened after Belarusian security forces gained access to the chats of a bot used by the Gayun monitoring project, where users reported information about Russian troop movements.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Vladimir is a graduate of the History Department at Belarusian State University, completing his master's degree in 2012 and his doctorate in 2016. He is the author of over 20 research papers. Since 2017, he has worked at the National Archives, where he became deputy head of the Information Retrieval Systems Department and was recognized as the best archivist in Belarus in 2020.
He was arrested in April 2025 as part of a criminal case opened under the articles "assistance to extremist activity" and "incitement of hostility or discord," and in December of the same year he was charged with several counts related to the transfer of information to the "Belarusian Gayun" chatbot and posting comments on Telegram.
Trial outcome 17.12.2025
3 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Photographer. Natalia took a lot of nature photographs, especially of birds, and was well known in the now-disbanded amateur ornithologist organization "Bird Protection of the Fatherland."
Natalia was diagnosed with liver cancer while in pretrial detention.
During the appeal hearing, the Supreme Court reclassified the charge from "financing extremist activity" to "assisting extremist activity" (Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code). As a result, given her poor health, Natalia's sentence was reduced to three years of restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility (house arrest).
Trial outcome 12.01.2026
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal 18.02.2026
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Igor was arrested and convicted in 2025 for "assisting extremist activity" in a criminal case opened after Belarusian security forces gained access to the chats of a bot used by the Gayun monitoring project, where users reported information about Russian troop movements.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Dmitry was found guilty in 2025 of "assisting extremist activity" in the high-profile case of the monitoring channel "Belarusian Gayun," which monitored the actions of Russian troops in Belarus before and during their armed aggression against Ukraine.
Dmitry Korneichik's last job was at the Autospace retail chain, which sells auto parts and consumables, with stores in various cities across Belarus. Previously, he worked as a sole proprietor in the professional photography industry.
He was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In 2013, he graduated from Yanka Kupala University of Grodno and went to work as a history teacher at a school in Zhemyslavl. Soon after, Sergei became the first secretary of the Ivyevsky District Committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM) and even joined the local executive committee's leadership reserve. In interviews with state-run media, he praised Belarusian stability and organized patriotic events.
However, after 2017, he left education. In February 2025, Pakhomov registered as a sole proprietor, listing roofing work as his primary activity.
In the winter of 2026, it became known that the 37-year-old man was in pretrial detention. He was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("inciting racial, national, religious, or other social hatred"). Although a sentence had not yet been handed down, the KGB had already included him on its list of "terrorists."
The exact reason for the criminal prosecution remains unknown. It's likely due to comments on a Telegram message from an unprotected account.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
He studied in France and graduated from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in 2007. He built his career in high technology: first, he worked for almost seven years as an engineer at the STC group of companies, then moved to Mobile Service Ltd, where he worked on audiovisual solutions.
Since April 2021, Yuri has worked as an engineer at Netland. It was there that he participated in a large-scale government project—the launch of the third line of the Minsk metro.
Yuri disappeared from social media in the spring of 2025—it appears he was arrested and held in pretrial detention pending trial.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Before the Russian-Ukrainian war, Anastasia and her husband lived in the city of Lisichansk in Ukraine's Luhansk region. According to social media posts , after the war broke out, Anastasia and her husband moved to Mozyr. There, she reportedly worked as a craftswoman, making handmade decorative soap.
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