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Vyacheslav is a native of Ukraine. Around 2011, he moved to Gomel with his parents. Graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Belarusian State Medical University in Minsk with a degree in Dentistry. Since 2017, he worked as a dental surgeon at the Bragin Central District Hospital, established himself well in the team and among patients
On September 5, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
| 11.02.2025 | После освобождения выдано предписание в 10-дневный срок покинуть РБ. |
He was convicted of tearing down three Belarusian state flags from an educational institution, a retail facility and a post office.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
He was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
On 15.08.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024. In 2025, he was removed from the list of terrorists.
Safanovich was accused of writing messages in a Telegram chat on October 25, 2020, calling for road closures. According to the prosecution and the court, in his first message, Safanovich "called for active participation in group actions in the Luninets district that grossly violate public order," i.e. Safanovich allegedly committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Safanovich was also charged under Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, i.e. public slander against Lukashenko. As follows from the article of the state publication, Safanovich wrote a second message in the same chat on August 13, 2020, under a photo of a tearful woman leaving Okrestina. The caption to the video was as follows : "Confession of a Belarusian girl who was in the dungeons of Lukashenko's Gestapo. Do I understand correctly that Lukashenko became the second after Hitler to attack the people of Belarus?"
On July 18, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released on December 23, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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An employee of the Ministry of Education. Sergei is accused of leaking data to the ChKB.
They detained Sergei brutally: several security forces suddenly ran into him when the man calmly walked around the courtyard of a high-rise building.
According to the pro-government telegram channels, a resident of Minsk wrote comments in "extremist" chats calling for forceful resistance to the internal affairs bodies (the security forces showed several messages dated August 2020), and also sent personal data to the bot of the Black Book of Belarus channel several judges.
Pavel Yanchuk is from the Kamenets region, but lived in Brest. Before the trial, Pavel was placed in custody.
According to the prosecution , on April 17, 2022, Pavel Yanchuk wrote an offensive comment about A.L. Lukashenko under a publication in the telegram channel “Real Belarus”.
On July 18, the appeal was considered, the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
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The man was accused of leaving an offensive comment about Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte, in which he accused the politician of committing a crime against humanity and an act of terrorism. Vadim was held in custody until the trial. He fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.
Vadim has a secondary specialized education and worked as a welder.
According to human rights activists, he was released in September 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
On October 13, 2022, Maxim was convicted under an administrative article for distributing information products containing calls for extremist activity.
In June 2023, he was convicted under a criminal article for assisting extremist activity.
Maxim had encephalitis while still in the pretrial detention center. There were severe complications. He was even paralyzed for some time. He walks with difficulty.
According to the prosecution, on December 31, 2022, Vladimir posted a negative, obscene comment in a closed public chat on the social network VKontakte under a graphic image of Lukashenko. The content of the comment is unknown to human rights activists.
At the court hearing, he fully admitted his guilt and refused to testify. Until the trial, he was under a travel restriction. He was also known to have been repeatedly charged with administrative offences for "disseminating extremist materials."
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Detained for comments made in 2020.
Alexey was detained on May 3, 2023, and he was given a 15-day administrative arrest under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code (distribution of “extremist” products). He was never released, as a criminal case was opened against him for organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them, as well as for comments that he left on the Internet back in 2020: “Buy fireworks , checkers, lasers, helmets, shields, respirators and let’s fight back against fascism! We need to decentralize the exits in each district, block the roads, paralyze all traffic. ".
It is known that Alexey was born in Gomel, worked as a freight forwarder, and has a secondary specialized education.
On October 6, 2023, Alexey’s appeal was considered.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Detained for participating in protests in 2020.
In June 2023, it became known that an additional charge had been brought under Article 361-2 for one donation of 10 USD to a fund that was later recognized as extremist by the court.
The court issued a sentence of 3 years' imprisonment, but the appellate court replaced the imprisonment with a restriction of freedom with direction.
He was released at the end of May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
On 23.04.2024, Dmitry will have a trial to change the regime to a stricter one, he will most likely be sent to a penal colony. According to human rights activists, he will be released in mid-December 2024.
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Dmitry was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code for Telegram comments about Alexander Lukashenko, Natalia Kachanova, and Russians. State television aired a video about the verdict. In it, the prosecutor explains the essence of the charge: that the comment about Russians constituted an "ethnic insult."
He was scheduled to be released on November 23 , 2025 .