All persecuted

Andrey and his wife are Ukrainians, both from Chernihiv. The couple moved to Belarus after getting married: the spouse wanted it, her parents lived there.

The family has been living in Vitebsk for 10 years. Andrey worked in the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee as an electrician. He was also detained at work.

In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch», which was released on the ONT TV channel on April 05, 2023, Andrei was accused of agent activity in favor of Ukraine.

As reported in the film, Shmay regularly sent information via the Signal messenger to Ukraine to his younger brother Ruslan, who serves in the Chernihiv operational directorate «North» and is the deputy commander for operational affairs.

Artem Zubryakov is an employee of «Belagro»‎. He was detained at the end of September 2022 together with colleagues. It was reported that criminal cases were opened against 4 of the detainees, and about 20 were detained. Telegram channels supporting the state power of the Republic of Belarus published news in which they wrote that the company's employees had been actively protesting since 2020.

During a search of the office in the fall of 2022, paraphernalia and furniture in red and white colors were seized.

Artem Zubkov noted that he was detained for sign up to telegram channels recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus and forwarding materials from these channels.

The trial was held behind closed doors.

According to pro-government telegram channels, four people were detained - they are called a "sleeper cell of extremists" who had "external connections" with Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine. Among them is Dmitry.

All of them are from Gomel and, judging by their posts on social networks, have been friends for a long time, participating together in an international game of Beer Pong in Gomel. After the brutal detention , the friends were forced to record a “repentance video” and say that they created a chat where they corresponded with each other, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they allegedly insulted Lukashenko several times in correspondence, and also wrote “wrong” comments. Another accusation is that the guys “had external connections” with Belarusian volunteers who are fighting for Ukraine. Apparently, this was the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article “promoting extremist activities.”

On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

An employee of the IT company «Game Stream». The telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published news with a video from the search in Ksenia's house.

According to law enforcement officials, in 2020-2021, through donations on Facebook, she made 9 payments to solidarity funds totaling 425 USD. Now a criminal case has been opened against her under the article «financing of extremist activities».

It is reported that during the search, a white-red-white flag, 20,000 USD and office equipment were found and seized from Alkenova.

Detained together with his wife in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi.

Human rights activists received information that on March 3, Maxim Lopatin was detained by employees of the State Security Committee in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi. The man is being held in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

Lopatin was severely beaten during the arrest. A film was released on ONT, which tells about some high-profile detentions, including the mention of Maxim. Allegedly his friend is a psychotherapist Evgenia Tochinskaya, who lives in Poland, asked to bring a Ukrainian agent Shvets from Stolin to the Lagoy highway on February 27.

The video shows that the man has dentures on his jaw, which may mean that it was broken. After splinting, there should be a serious stage of rehabilitation with eating and drinking water through a tube.

On March 23, Maxim's wife, Lyudmila Lopatina, was also detained. 

The couple has two juvenile children.

Activist from Baranovichi. Igor has a disability of the 3rd group, because. 10 years ago, he got into an accident and had his leg amputated. He was arrested on February 23, 2023, sentenced to 15 days, then transferred to a pre-trial detention center under a criminal article.

According to the investigation, in different periods of time from May 1, 2020 to May 23, 2022, Shumilov published four posts in Odnoklassniki with satirical images, in which the investigation considered insulting Lukashenka and government officials, as well as slandering Lukashenka. It is known that on one of the images Lukashenka, together with the listed persons, is depicted as prisoners who are kept in a prison cell. At the trial, Igor fully admitted his guilt. He explained that the publications on his page appeared only after he "liked" these posts. He himself did not understand at that time that these drawings could be regarded as an insult.

Bodybuilder, local historian. Previously, a man was detained for participating in protests. On March 16, 2023, he was arrested for “distributing extremist materials” and sentenced to 10 days. The man did not come out and was transferred to a pre-trial detention center. The original charge was for insulting Lukashenko.

In May 2024, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a new criminal case; his trial began again on May 7, 2024. In addition to him, Andrei Stabulyanets and Denis Tsybulsky were also involved in the case, who was convicted a year ago for participating in protests in Minsk (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).

He is a political scientist, a specialist in security issues. Head of the analytical center Belarus Security Blog; member of the Board of the organization «Pravyi Alliance» (2010-2011).

According to Andrey's friend, he was detained in Moscow a few days ago. Now he has been taken to Minsk and is now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee («SIZO KGB»).

On June 20, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.

On August 10, 2020, during the protests, Alexey was driving in his car in Minsk in the area «Belaya Vezha». At the intersection, the man saw members of the special purpose police squad, who, looking for protesters, began to brutally detain car drivers: shoot and break windows in cars. Alexey, not expecting his detention, drove forward, where traffic police officers were just passing. Not noticing the official car, Alexey moved into its row. At the time of the maneuver, the traffic police car had already stopped, and the man went on about his business. In this action, the court saw interference in the activities of an employee of the internal affairs body (Article 365 of the Criminal Code).

At the same time and in the same place, there was allegedly a traffic police officer Mosenza, who testified at the end of December 2022, allegedly Alexey wanted to shoot him down then. For this, the man was charged with Article 364 of the Criminal Code and taken into custody.

Alexey has three children, one of them is a minor daughter of 5 years old.

According to the prosecution, at the end of October 2022, in a group supporting the current government, the 64 year old chairman of one of the garage-building cooperatives of Gomel, Alexander Rumko, incited hostility against police officers and glorified collaborators. The Homel resident posted all his comments, including slandering Lukashenka, on a social network ok.ru .

The Rogachev District Court found that Yulia posted messages and videos on her publicly accessible page on the social network Instagram that “contained insults to the president.”

02.12.2023 released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.

In January, during the pre-election raids, Yulia Kostyuchenko was detained again and on January 22, she was tried under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for allegedly distributing “extremist materials.” On February 5, a second trial of Yulia Kostyuchenko took place under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Most likely, Yulia was held in custody all this time and her administrative arrest was simply extended, first for 15 days, and then extended again on February 5. In total, Yulia spent 90 days in the temporary detention facility, after which she was transferred to Pretrial Detention Center No. 3.

On April 3, 2025, the KGB of Belarus recognized the page on the social network X with the name "what's going on" as an "extremist formation". At the same time, the punishers named Yulia Viktorovna Kostyuchenko, born August 5, 1995, as involved in this "formation".

Convicted for making statements on chatroulette against Lukashenko.

A former MTS employee from Brest was detained in early November 2022. In the “repentance” video, he said that in 2020-2021 he worked at MTS and had access to data. According to the security officials, Andrey handed over the data of several officials and prosecutors to the Black Book of Belarus.

A former cellmate of Tsypak told human rights activists that Andrei was severely beaten during his arrest.

Andrei's case was considered behind closed doors, so the outcome of the trial is unknown to human rights activists.

Andrei Tsypak previously played in the Brest handball club named after Meshkov. From 2020 to 2021, he worked at MTS - and at that time, according to the security forces, he transferred the data of several prosecutors and government officials to the protest initiative.

Deputy commander of the 310th artillery group for ideological work of the 120th separate guards mechanized brigade of the guard, lieutenant colonel. He is accused of “treason against the state by a person subject to military status” and “inciting other social discord.”

The circumstances of the case are unknown.

On July 5 and 17, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.