2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 30.08.2024
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.
Ruslan Zubkov is 26 years old. According to social networks, he has lived and worked in Poland in recent years.
In December 2023, Zubkov was added to the list of members of the extremist group "Russia is Evil". This is a small Telegram chat with 135 members, where only three people are currently active. In February 2024, Ruslan was put on the wanted list in Belarus and Russia - this means that at that time he was still at large.
It is also unknown when Ruslan was detained. He was first tried in June 2024 for "insulting Lukashenko" in the Kamenets District Court. The verdict is unknown.
Trial outcome 19.06.2024
unknown.
Trial outcome 17.02.2025
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.
Detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.
Irina was tried as a "Person who committed a socially dangerous act." This means that, according to the court's decision, compulsory medical measures were to be applied to her. Her trial took place on September 18 and 23, 2024. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Trial outcome 23.09.2024
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.
On August 23, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 14.06.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.08.2024
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.
Kirovsk resident Yuri Averkov was detained on the eve of the "Single Voting Day" in February 2024. Propagandists then announced that Averkov was the administrator of a Kirovsk Telegram channel that he created in 2020, where he "called on people to take to the streets." As part of the story on the Telegram channel of the Bobruisk state media holding, it was then claimed that Averkov left offensive comments about security forces on the Internet, registered with the "Plan Peramoga", and also allegedly sent photos of homemade weapons to an anonymous chat bot.
It is known that the day before the “Single Voting Day”, on February 23, Yuri Averkov was tried on an administrative charge for “propaganda or public display, production, distribution of Nazi symbols or paraphernalia” (Part 2 of Article 19.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus).
The court hearing for “insulting a government official” (Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus) took place on June 11. The court’s decision is unknown.
On September 30, the Mogilev Regional Court will begin to consider the criminal case under Part 3 of Article 293 (Mass riots), as well as Part 1 of Article 130 (Incitement of racial, national, religious or other social hatred or discord) in a closed session.
Trial outcome 11.06.2024
unknown.
Appeal 13.08.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 30.09.2024
unknown.
Appeal 26.11.2024
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.
On June 15, 2023, he was convicted under Art. 205 (Theft) to 2 years and 6 months in prison.
On June 14, 2024, the trial of a criminal case under Art.342 of the Criminal Code(Activeparticipationin groupactionsthat grosslyviolatepublicorder ). Vyacheslav and eight otherpeopleare being judged on it .
By adding up the sentences in this and the previous criminal case, he was finally sentenced to 3 years of maximum security imprisonment.
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.
Valery was convicted of participating in post-election marches in Minsk in August and September 2020, according to the court, specifically by "stepping onto the roadway" and "blocking traffic."
Trial outcome 13.06.2024
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Anatoly Volodko is 56 years old. He is a resident of Minsk. The man has a wife, an adult daughter and a son who will soon turn eighteen. Volodko worked as a programmer at Top Soft for over 20 years. It is engaged in the creation of the Galaxy product ecosystem, which is necessary for the digitalization of business. The company's central office is located in Russia, where Anatoly worked part of the time.
The exact date of the man's arrest is unknown, but it was probably January 15 or 16, 2024. After all, on January 17, he and his wife were convicted of "petty hooliganism" - he was sentenced to 15 days, while the sentence for his wife is unknown. According to the testimony of security officials, Anatoly Volodko "was in a public place and, out of hooligan motives, was shouting loudly, using obscene language, waving his arms and behaving aggressively." The man did not admit his guilt and said that he was detained in his own home in the middle of the day. He did not do any of the things that the witnesses said. According to cellmate Anatoly Volodko, he refused to pay "donations" that KGB officers threatened to offer to those who made donations. In general, the man did not admit his guilt. Anatoly's cellmate claims that this served as the reason for further prosecution - administrative and criminal.
On August 27, 2024, Anatoly had his appeal heard and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 11.06.2024
8 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.08.2024
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.
Vladimir was convicted in the summer of 2024 under the article "Insulting a Government Official" and sentenced to imprisonment.
Trial outcome 11.06.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.08.2024
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.
Human rights activists are aware of several facts of administrative prosecution of Nelly Alferova. The woman spoke about some of them in one of her video messages to Lukashenko and senior government officials in 2021; the details of others were clarified in the courts.
In 2020, the Polotsk resident was an observer in the presidential elections. At that time, the security forces already had special records of her.
At the end of 2021, the woman decided to leave Belarus with her son. In the videos, she talked about the problems she had to face in emigration. The host of the program on the pro-government TV channel "Zvyazda" thanked Alferova for her sincerity and invited her to return home as soon as possible. Belarusian emigrant acquaintances offered the woman both practical and financial help. But she refused and at the same time “looked depressed, broken.” The woman indeed soon returned to Belarus.
At the end of 2023, texts criticizing the current Belarusian authorities periodically appeared on the pages of Nelly Alferova. And at the same time, the woman wrote that she was being secretly stalked, that she found hidden video cameras in her apartment...
Also on the Polotsk resident’s social networks, you can see many reposts from Internet resources recognized as “extremist.” Probably the police noticed this and detained Nellie.
Sergei was convicted in court for insulting Lukashenko. On May 5, 2023, the case was heard by Judge Inna Sivets.
On June 4, 2024, the OrshaDistrict and Orsha Courtheard another criminal case against Sergei.Hewas again accusedof insulting Lukashenko . The casewas heard byJudgeYuliaVershinina .
The courtfoundthat SergeiGnevko, "beinga personpreviouslyconvictedof publiclyinsultingLukashenkoand having been taken to the special detention facility of the Orsha District Department of Internal Affairs for committing an administrative offense under Article19.1of the Code of AdministrativeOffenses (petty hooliganism), while in a state of alcoholic intoxication, in the presence of police officers and an employee of the special detention facility, publicly made a statement containing an obscene form of speechaddressed toAlexanderLukashenkoin connectionwith the exercise of his powers."
The courtfoundSergeiGnevkoguilty and,underPart2of Article368of the Criminal Code,he was sentencedtoimprisonment for a term of four years.Based on the totality of sentences, the courtpartiallyaddedthe unservedsentenceunder the previoussentence to the sentence imposed and finally sentenced him to imprisonment for a term of 4 years and 6 months.
On August 16, 2024, the appeal hearing took place and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 05.05.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 04.06.2024
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 16.08.2024
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.
Zhanna Dashkevich is 54 years old. She comes from the village of Svatki, Myadel district, Minsk region. Zhanna graduated from the Bobruisk Medical College in 1987, and at the age of 41 she entered the Belarusian State Pedagogical University to study as a psychologist. It is unknown when Zhanna Dashkevich was detained and why. But she stopped being online in October 2023, although she had previously been active on social networks.
The trial of the woman began on June 3, 2024 in the Minsk Regional Court. Zhanna is being tried under two articles - “recruitment, training or preparation for participation in war, as well as material support for such activities” and “creation of an extremist formation or participation in it.” She faces five to ten years in prison
Trial outcome 09.09.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 19.11.2024
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.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 22.11.2024
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.
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.
Join our community
👉 Be on the front line of help, get exclusive news and share your support.
To ensure that none of political prisoners are left without attention and support the site has a function of verified sendings.
Please attach a photo or a screenshot for transfer verification. The new transfer will be posted on the site as soon as it is verified by the moderator!
Support actions
You can upload an image from the support event, and after passing moderation we will publish it.
Respond to help those released
Do you want to help a released political prisoner? Send your contact to Telegram and we will contact you.
A Keeper means you want to regularly help a specific person in prison through their family. Choose a political prisoner and click «Become a Keeper», our team will contact you shortly.
You can request the letters that we have in storage, for this, leave your telegram account for feedback, we will contact you and, after verifying your identity, we will transfer the archive with your letters.
Are you a relative or someone close to a political prisoner? Send us a short description and your Telegram contact for feedback. After data verification we will publish your relative on the website.
Do you have information about administrative prosecution? Please send us a short description and your Telegram contact for feedback. After checking the data, we will publish your information on the site.
Please leave your contact on Telegram and describe your skills in as much detail as possible. After moderation, your CV will be published on the website.
Multi upload allows you to send confirmations with one photo to several political prisoners at once, check the selected people before sending!
Please attach a photo or a screenshot for transfer verification. The new transfer will be posted on the site as soon as it is verified by the moderator!
Write to representatives
Correct translation
Application for assistance in employment or retraining
Please complete the questionnaire to enter the first stage of an interview to determine your individual needs.
