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Worked at BMZ in Zhlobin. Detained for comments on social media.
At the time of his arrest, Dmitry's youngest child was six months old, and his two older children were under six years old. His wife was on maternity leave.
On June 26, 2024, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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Okolotovich was arrested at a cemetery. The KGB lured the priest there by tricking him into coming there: they called him and told him a woman had died and needed a Catholic burial. At the cemetery, they handcuffed him and placed a black helmet on his head so no one could see who was being taken or where.
Two of his parishioners, a man and a woman, were detained at the same time. They spent approximately nine months in a KGB pretrial detention center, where they were forced to testify about the priest's alleged meetings with foreign diplomats.
The charges ultimately brought against Okolotovich were outlandish: he allegedly somehow diverted Russian and Belarusian air force planes in the opposite direction, thereby causing damage not only to Belarus but also to the Russian Aerospace Forces—a total of one million euros. Upon his arrest, approximately 270,000 euros were confiscated from him—mostly parish funds, not the priest's personal funds. This sum was applied toward the debt, and the remainder was claimed as additional payment in Belarusian rubles.
By that time, Okolotovich had already been under surveillance for a long time, but nothing could be found that would prove espionage.
The priest became the latest religious figure to be affected by the regime's repression of religious communities in Belarus.
Genrikh suffered a heart attack and recently underwent stomach surgery for cancer. He requires medical supervision and constant medication. He slept on the floor and boards for over a year; he was only moved to a bunk bed before the trial.
The KGB offered Okolotovych a special condition for his release. Upon returning to Volozhin, he was to invite the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to a church service and discreetly hand him a flash drive containing incriminating evidence—a pretext to discredit the diplomat. At the time, Ante Jozic was the nuncio to Belarus. This provocation against the nuncio wasn't the only one: according to Krylov, the KGB proposed similar scenarios against other foreign diplomats, primarily Polish ones. The priest refused everything: "I am completely imbued with God's ecclesiastical purposes. And what you demand of me is a crime. I cannot betray God."
In November 2025, he was pardoned after a visit to Belarus by the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, as a special envoy of Pope Leo XIV.
He was detained on 10/31/2023 and sentenced under an administrative article to 15 days, after which a criminal case was opened against him and he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
2 years of restriction of freedom without direction
The detained Raisa Shcherbin is 37 years old. She works in one of the capital's fitness clubs. She also does body fitness. Participates in competitions.
She was detained for leaving comments in telegram chats. Previously, her telegram account was called by one letter. She recently changed the account name to her own username, and also put her photo and opened the Belarusian number to which it is registered.
Deputy director of one of the Minsk organizations. Before the trial, he was held on bail in the amount of 11,100 rubles.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
On November 24, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
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Evgeny was detained in March 2023 and convicted under administrative article 19.11, part 2 (“distribution, production, storage, and transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity”), after which a criminal case was opened against him.
In January 2024, he was found guilty of a number of criminal charges, including "organizing mass riots" and "inciting hostility or discord," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
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.
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Due to the closed nature of the trial, the merits of the case are currently unknown. It is only known that Vladimir Romanovsky was detained in Babruisk during a "pigeon feeding" event on May 9, 2020. Riot police detained approximately 15 people in the city at the time.
According to the verdict , Romanovsky has now been found guilty of publicly insulting Lukashenko on social media and has been sentenced to imprisonment.
On February 6, 2024, the court reviewed the appeal and the verdict came into force.
He was expected to be released on November 6, 2025.
According to the prosecution , Igor Kotov, at the beginning of August 2020, repeatedly posted and kept freely available in a Telnegram group, later recognized as extremist, text messages with diagrams of the movement of internal affairs officers throughout the territory of Minsk for the purpose of organizing group actions that grossly violated public order .
The accused Kotov, interrogated at the court hearing, told the court that due to communication interruptions, after the presidential elections, in early August 2020, he subscribed to a telegram group, which was subsequently recognized as extremist. Subscribers dropped various information into this chat, including the location and movement of law enforcement officers. At that time, I decided to analyze information about the movement of riot police officers and dump it into the chat. He sent information in the form of diagrams indicating the location of riot police officers.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
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On January 23, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
He was released in early summer 2024, having served his full sentence.
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Olga was accused of posting a story on Instagram, where she insulted a local traffic police inspector. Golomako admitted guilt and said that she posted the story out of resentment towards the traffic cop who drew up a report for a failed technical inspection.
The traffic police officer requested compensation of 5,000 rubles, but the court approved only 600. The woman must also pay a fine of 40 basic units and 111 rubles in state duty. Olga is raising three minor children alone.
10 months of restriction of freedom without direction.