Evgeniy is a former IT manager from Mogilev. After the 2006 elections and several years of political activism, he was expelled from the history department of Mogilev University. He graduated from the history department in Poznan and worked as a manager at an IT company, supplying dairy products. In 2013, Evgeniy returned to Belarus, immediately got married, and then went to work. While he had previously focused primarily on public and academic activities (in the student ethnographic society and the oral history archive), he has now gone into business.
And since the beginning of 2017, he has taken on a new occupation: at the request of clients, he has recorded interviews with their village grandparents and edited documentaries.
Evgeniya has a wife and two small children waiting for her at home.
Trial outcome 12.06.2025
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal 11.09.2025
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 14.02.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Maxim graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics with a degree in network engineering. He began his career at the Minsk Electromechanical Plant, then worked as a programmer at IBA and Netland. In 2022, he took the position of system architect at A1.
He was detained and convicted in August 2024 under the articles “financing extremist activity” and “financing or other material support for war.”
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Citizen of Ukraine. From June 8 to June 21, 2023, the case was considered behind closed doors by judge Anatoly Sotnikov.
On August 29, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 21.06.2023
7 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 29.08.2023
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was detained in September 2023, allegedly for chatting with friends. A criminal case was opened.
24.04.2025
У Андрея в колонии 10-ый профучёт.
Trial outcome 26.07.2024
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 12.11.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The expected date of Andrey’s detention is September 20, 2023. On this day, a “repentance” video appeared, where a man says that he allegedly wrote negative comments about Lukashenko, officials, police officers, the Russian military, and also threatened people who support the current government.
44-year-old Andrei Burdenya was detained for comments in telegram chats, of which he left more than three hundred. Andrey studied at school No. 6, and then served in the army. It is known that now he is temporarily not working, but previously he worked for some time in the IT field, and even earlier he was engaged in the production of kitchen furniture and had his own individual entrepreneur
Trial outcome 08.07.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.09.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 29.01.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
A special forces detachment burst into Alexey’s home, they knocked the man to the floor and one security officer sat with his knees on Samoiluk’s body (with one knee on Samoiluk’s neck).
The pro-government channel claims that Samoiluk “threw stones at the police during the riots.” In that publication on the same channel they also posted photographs: in one picture there are two people in hoods and masks, one holding a Ukrainian flag, the second a sheet of paper with the text “Brest residents with Ukraine.”
Trial outcome 05.08.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 08.10.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In 2006, he graduated with a master's degree from the Physics Department of Belarusian State University. Before his arrest, he held the position of lead software engineer (a management position) at EPAM. In May 2020, Pavel, along with a team of other IT employees, helped Belarusian teachers set up a distance learning system. Pavel is married and has two children. At the time of his arrest and trial, his wife was pregnant; he had not seen their second child.
Judging by social media, Pavel was involved in social dancing (hustle).
The conviction was based on PayPal donations made between 2020 and 2022 to funds and initiatives such as BYSOL, BY_help, BYPOL, and others. Most of the donations ranged from 10 to 50 euros, with about ten transfers in total. Pavel acknowledged the transfers and explained them as a desire to help people affected by the protests or those who lost their jobs.
Trial outcome 19.01.2024
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 300 basic values fine.
Appeal 23.04.2024
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On March 1, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 17.01.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 01.03.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Andrey is 36 years old. In 2020, he worked at the Etazhi real estate agency. The man has a small daughter.
According to pro-government telegram channels, he himself wrote to the Black Book of Belarus and offered to drop the addresses of security forces involved in the repressions. Andrei did not know that on the other side, GUBOPiK employee Artur Gaiko was answering him.
Andrey was detained on November 10, 2023. He now faces up to 12 years in prison.
The man has been using the same account since 2019. From it he “leaked” information into the Black Book of Belarus, and from it he wrote comments in open chats and groups. The video shows his archived username from the ChKB bot database, which was saved by Arthur Gaiko. Through it you can find the current name of the telegram account and ID.
Trial outcome 05.04.2024:
unknown years of imprisonment in a penal colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Brest resident, videographer. Has minor children. On June 7, 2023, he was detained on administrative charges (Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), and received 10 days of arrest for subscribing to "Zerkalo" on Instagram. He was released, but two weeks later he was detained on criminal charges.
Trial outcome 12.10.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 01.12.2023
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The investigation believes that in January 2023, Ivan Likholat contacted the SBU, where he was instructed to blow up railway tracks. He recruited two Grodno residents who had professional skills in mine and explosives for the task. One of them was Ivan Borodich.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
His trial began on September 4, 2023 in the Minsk City Court. This is the same Minsk resident whom people “recaptured” from arrest at a picket to collect signatures on May 31, 2020, after he shouted “Ganba!” by traffic police officers. Now Evgeniy is being tried in a criminal case.
On November 17, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 07.09.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.11.2023
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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