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Михаил — доцент, кандидат технических наук, автор монографий и разработок, первым в Беларуси зарегистрировал автомобиль на альтернативном топливе. Руководил лабораторией в Витебском технологическом университете, занимавшейся водородными технологиями.
В 2006 году интерес к его работе проявил КГБ. После отказа сотрудничать с органами Михаила обвинили в «хищении через злоупотребление служебными полномочиями» и в 2007 году приговорили к 5 годам колонии.
После освобождения он занялся правозащитной деятельностью: вошёл в организацию «Платформа», позже стал сооснователем «Платформы Инновейшн». Повторно был задержан в августе 2014 года, через неделю после оглашения приговора в отношении директора ЧКПУ «Платформа Инновейшн» Андрея Бондаренко. В 2015 году Витебский областной суд признал его виновным по нескольким статьям — разглашение служебной тайны, незаконные средства для сбора информации, дача взятки — и приговорил к лишению свободы в условиях строгого режима. В октябре того же года Верховный суд усилил наказание на полгода.
Освобождён в феврале 2021 года, полностью отбыв назначенный судом срок наказания.
23 января 2024 года Михаила вновь задержали, при обыске и допросах к нему применяли насилие. После выхода из изолятора он покинул Беларусь.
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Alexander has a business in the construction industry.
He was released in February 2026, having served his full sentence.
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 Elena is free , but the sentence for the political article , the place where she will serve her sentence , and the date of her release are unknown due to the closed judicial system in Belarus.
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Alesya was found guilty in August 2025 in a criminal case opened under the article "creation of an extremist group or participation in one" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the spring of 2026, having fully served her sentence.
It is known that the woman worked as a librarian, and in the last year before her arrest, she worked in the system of municipal utilities of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
People who met Irina in prison reported that she was taking her arrest very hard. She said her family and friends had turned their backs on her. Furthermore, Irina suffered from serious health problems: court hearings even had to be interrupted because she was becoming ill.
According to calculations, she was supposed to be released in the spring of 2026.
A construction worker by training, he graduated from School No. 61 in Baranovichi and went to Russia to work. Upon returning to Belarus, he became a member of the "For Freedom" Movement.
In 2020, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail, despite asking the judge to fine him. In 2025, he was sentenced to prison for participating in the 2020 protests.
He was released in early 2026 .
Natalia Yaroshenko is the sister of former political prisoner Lyudmila Goncharenko. She spent 147 days in the Gomel temporary detention center, and then she was deported to Ukraine with a ban on entry to Belarus for five years. During her imprisonment, the woman was also interrogated by the KGB, forced to admit that she had filmed Russian military equipment. Natalia had to undergo a polygraph test, the results of which she was never informed of. "But I really didn't film anything, I didn't do anything," she says.
According to Natalia, she spent six days in a punishment cell. There was nothing there except for high bunks knocked together from planks, a washbasin and a toilet. "I felt sick. They called a doctor - I had high blood pressure," Natalia recalls. After that, she was returned to a regular cell. In the temporary detention center, Natalia, according to her, a vein burst in her leg, the woman asked for a month to be taken to the hospital. For almost five months of imprisonment, the interviewee did not have any walks or parcels.
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Orthodox priest. He is the father of 6 children, was forced to leave the country with his family. Currently a refugee in France, he serves Orthodox Belarusians in Paris. Member of the Christian Vision group from its very foundation.
On September 18, 2020, he was detained, the Sovetsky District Court of Gomel (Judge Alexander Mokhorev) imposed an administrative penalty on him in the form of 10 days of administrative arrest under Part 1 of Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for holding a meeting, rally, street procession, demonstration, picketing, or other mass event). On September 28, 2020, Archpriest Vladimir, immediately after serving his sentence according to the court of September 18, was again subjected to an administrative penalty in the form of 15 days of arrest under the same article by the same court, in the same composition.
Thus, in total, Archpriest Vladimir Drobyshevsky spent 25 days in prison continuously. In the temporary detention center, his pectoral cross and cassock were taken away from him. The Investigative Committee continued to put pressure on the priest.
In prison, he was deprived of the right to correspondence, phone calls, medical supplies, clothing and food parcels, etc.
On March 28, 2026, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
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The younger brother of Belarusian volunteer Denis Urbanovich.
Following a search in April 2025, Maximwas detained . According to preliminary reports, the apartment where he lived with his girlfriend was sealed. He was initially held in a KGB pretrial detention facility; he is currently in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1.
He was released in the summer of 2026.
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He was arrested in September 2024 and convicted twice under administrative law (Part 2, Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus). A criminal case was subsequently opened. He was most likely held in Pretrial Detention Center No. 6 before his trial.
After graduating from university in 2010, he joined the police. He served as a district police officer and in the juvenile affairs inspectorate. He rose to the rank of senior lieutenant and was dismissed at the very end of 2014. The reason given was "due to misconduct." He then set up a business as a sole proprietor and engaged in logging.
When exactly the trial took place and how it ended is unknown. Strizhich likely received a prison sentence (on political charges).
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2026.
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She was released in the summer of 2025, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.