Andrei was arrested and convicted of "calls to actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus" and "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to imprisonment. The trial is likely to take place in mid-2025.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Nikita Grushevskyi graduated from the Sukhoi Gomel State Technical University in 2022. He worked shifts in Russia.
According to information available to human rights activists , Nikita Grushevsky expressed his opinions, including about the individuals currently illegally holding power in Belarus, in online comments on social media communities.
Among other things, he was convicted for being part of a certain community that the regime declared an “extremist group.”
The trial of Nikita Grushevsky was held behind closed doors.
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 23.09.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Maxim, a Russian citizen, was arrested and found guilty of "calls to actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
In places of imprisonment he was subjected to systematic torture motivated by political and national hatred.
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, and was deported to Russia on March 24 of that year.
Trial outcome 18.08.2025
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
The brother of former political prisoner Stanislav Mochalov, who was repressed in January 2022.
The specific charges against Igor are still unknown. It's possible his arrest is related to the case of the Belarusian Gayun channel, which monitored the actions of the Russian occupation army in Belarus during its aggression against Ukraine. A specific sentence is also being determined . It is only known that it does not involve imprisonment; most likely, he was given a restricted sentence.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
She was convicted on several political charges. While in pretrial detention, she suffered a stress-related stroke, which left her almost completely blind. Despite this, Olga was sentenced to four years in prison.
Olga has a teenage daughter who was sent to a boarding school, her eldest son is in the army, and Olga also has a mother who is a Group 1 disabled person and is bedridden.
As of spring 2026,Olga is free.In Marchof that year, she was transferred from Correctional Colony No. 4 to Pretrial Detention Facility No. 1, after which information emerged about her release.Whether this was a pardonor a releasefor health reasonsremains unknown .
Trial outcome date unknown
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Elena is accused under Part 3 of Article 361-1 (creation of an extremist group or participation in it) of the Criminal Code.
The case is presumably related to "yard chats." As a reminder, in the fall of 2024, a wave of arrests swept across Belarus's regions in connection with yard chats that were allegedly "attempting to organize." Around the same time, the KGB designated a number of yard chats as "extremist groups": "Zlye Kogtiki," "Sukharevo," "Senica2.0," "Solidarity," "Volnyya Vauki," "Navagrudskiya Partisany," "VILIYA," "Skromnye Matryoshka," and "Sosedi."
It is known that Elenais free, but the sentencefor the politicalarticle, the placewhere she will serveher sentence, and the date of her release are unknowndue to the closed judicial system in Belarus.
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