All persecuted

Vitold Shalkevich is 44 years old. He comes from the large town of Porozovo in the Svisloch district. The man has a wife and two underage daughters.

Vitold was detained in August 2023 right at work. At first, he was sentenced to arrest for "dissemination of extremist materials." Then, the Gubopikovites filmed a video with him and transferred him from the pretrial detention center. According to pro-government Telegram channels, Shalkevich left several thousand comments in various chats.

The details of the case are unknown. Alexander was probably detained in January 2024. According to information on his social networks, the man is married and graduated from BSUIR in 2014.

He probably worked in the Criminal Intelligence Department, which filed a lawsuit against Alexander for causing property damage. It should be noted that the Criminal Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs appeared in Belarus in April of this year - previously it was called the Department for Ensuring Operational Investigative Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The process will be held behind closed doors.

Gomel resident Nikolai Yushchenko has had his own business for a long time. His company sells household goods and packaging.

According to the article, Alexey is being tried for the protests that took place after the elections on August 9, 2020 in Pinsk.

A former fighter in Kalinovsky's regiment, whom Vietnam extradited to Belarus, Vasily was also a member of the Coordination Council.

It was reported that the man ended up in Asia after Lithuania deemed him a threat to national security and banned him from entering the European Union. "Kalinovets" was brought to Belarus on the evening of November 14 under a three-person escort. Vasily was flown to Belarus on Belavia flight B2978 from Moscow on the evening of November 14.

It is also known that the video of Veremeychik, published by propagandists, is, as expected, staged: it was filmed on a different plane and at a different time.

Former political prisoner Yuri Zenkovich said he spent four months in a KGB pretrial detention center before his release, sharing a cell with former Kalinovka prisoner Vasily Veremeychik. He noted that he greatly respects Vasily as an honest, open, and courageous person who hasn't broken down and remains courageous: "What he said in the 'interview' was coerced. To force him to say what the BBT officers wanted to hear, they used physical violence against him. Since there was little point in resisting, he said what he said under duress."

Vasily began experiencing health problems in the pretrial detention center. Veremeychik complained of symptoms suggesting heart problems: chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, and swelling in his arms and legs. He received no medical care in the pretrial detention center. In 2025, Veremeychik was sentenced to 13 years in prison and sent to Shklov Colony No. 17 to serve his sentence. There, Vasily was finally examined—tests were taken and a cardiac ultrasound was performed. The man's family doesn't know the exact results, but after the examination, Veremeychik was placed on IV drips and prescribed four strong medications: aspicard, clopidogrel, atorvastatin, and metoprolol. It is suspected that Vasily suffered a heart attack.

According to Vasily's wife , he was supposed to be transferred to the hospital at Minsk Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in early June 2026 for heart surgery. Instead, the political prisoner was thrown into a punishment cell, and then into a punishment cell.

Until 2011, Dmitry worked as a platoon commander of the Kobrin department of the security department and was a police captain. He is married and has a daughter. In November 2012, the Brest Intergarrison Military Court sentenced Peretolchin to 3.5 years in prison with a three-year deferment under the article on fraud (Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code). He was stripped of the rank of police captain. After that, he worked as a foundryman at Polesie and as a specialist at Dobronom.

He was convicted in the Brest Regional Court under Part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code (treason (as amended by the Law of 09.01.2019)) and Part 2 of Article 406 of the Criminal Code (failure to report a crime).

Maxim was featured in a propaganda film, filmed in prison.

In the spring of 2022, he joined Kalinovsky's volunteer regiment, which was formed in February of that year to defend Ukraine from a Russian invasion.

According to a pro-government television channel, Ralko took part in military operations.

In early 2024, Ralko resigned from Polk and returned to Warsaw. He began studying IT testing, attended protests, and worked as a security guard at Biedronka. He received subsidiary protection status. A couple of months after returning from Ukraine to Poland, Maksym had a falling out with his friends and disappeared. He accused one of them of espionage. He then reconnected in May 2024, claiming to be in Germany and planning to apply for asylum there. Maksym later reported that he had escaped from the refugee camp and left all his documents behind, including his passport.

Former employee of the Vetka Museum of Old Believers and Belarusian Traditions named after Shklyarov, tour guide.

Alexander was called "the legend of the Vetka Museum", "a favorite tour guide". He was interested in local history since his youth, loved to go on expeditions and collect antiques. He even bought some with his own money. Alexander has not worked at the museum recently. He was drafted into the army at the end of 2022, and after his service he did not return to the museum. According to Flagstock, shortly before his arrest, Alexander managed to work on state television. Before that, he repeatedly gave comments to the state press.

On May 3, 2024, Alexander was brought to administrative responsibility under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity).

Irina was arrested in October 2024 in connection with the "yard chats" case.

Irina Yakovleva is known to have been an active Orthodox believer, involved in church art and donating to churches and monasteries in Belarus. She worked as an accountant.

On October 29, 2024, the KGB recognized the courtyard coalition "Orden", which includes the courtyard chats "Zlye Kogtiki", "Sukharevo", "Senica2.0", "Solidarity", "Volnyya Vauki", "Navagrudskiya Partisans", "VILIYA", "Skromnye Matryoshka", and "Sosedi", as an "extremist formation".

According to the agency, those involved in these initiatives include Irina Yakovleva, Natalia Doronina, Diana Gavrilova, Ukrainian citizen Ivan Omelyan, Olga Nekhaychik, Konstantin Kirilenko, Yelizaveta Plitnik, Natalia Guzhova, Irina Smolyarova, Stanislav Botvin, and Natalia Lantukh. A few days later, mass arrests in this case took place across Belarus.

In January 2022, Svetlana's future husband, Stanislav, was sentenced to three years under Articles 342 and 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Svetlana, who was deeply concerned about his fate, brought him parcels. On February 24, 2022, Svetlana Yakubovich married Stanislav, who was still in prison at the time. In December 2023, Stanislav was released, having fully served his sentence. A year later, the couple was arrested on a new criminal charge.

It is known that the GUBOPiK officers are investigating the case against people who were allegedly involved in the Telegram chat "partisans of Novogrudok". Criminal cases have been opened against them under the article "extremism". All those who were interrogated in the case are being asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

The media reports that at least six people among those detained by security forces 15 days ago have not been released after serving their administrative arrest, including Tatyana.