All persecuted

A resident of Hrodna, detained for spreading extremist materials and personal data of more than 2,000 police officers in 2020. He participated in the protests after the election. He was also an administrator of the Instagram page «Grodno for Life».

Olga, who worked as an art director at the Europa Hotel in Minsk, was detained in August 2021 as part of a criminal case initiated under the article “act of terrorism” and convicted in June 2023 under several criminal articles.

According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group" allegedly preparing extremist crimes operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries. It included radical military personnel, security officials, athletes and businessmen who sought to seize power illegally. This case is related to the attempted arson of the house of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and the "organization of mass riots."

He works at the «Mogilev City Electric Networks» as an engineer.

Detained in early August 2022. The man is suspected that in the fall of 2020, using his official position, he transmitted information about the places of residence of civil servants and security forces to the telegram channel «Black Book of Belarus».

On June 27, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.

Convicted for being the administrator of a Telegram channel that published footage from protests at the Pushkinskaya metro station in Minsk. Vladimir himself had previously been detained, which he talked about in a video. He was detained at one of the protests for which he received 10-12 days, his home was searched and his equipment and phone were seized. Some time after leaving, he was detained again for a day and released on bail. A criminal case was opened against him, but he was taken into custody only a year later.

Military analyst Egor Lebedk was awarded 15 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.3 of the Administrative Code. After a day, Yegor did not come out and was detained on a criminal case of promoting extremist activities for comments for Euroradio.

In October 2022, channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that another criminal case was opened against Egor on the basis of repetition, and noted that each interview by an extremist forms a separate crime.

He was convicted of posting "offensive" photographs of the national flag of the Republic of Belarus and comments about it on the Internet in November 2021.

He served his sentence in IK-22 and was transferred to IK-2 in December 2023.

Andrey was detained by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption for posting extremist materials on his page vk.com. Andrey published a video of Lukashenko taking the oath in 1994 under a white-red-white flag.

He was convicted for participating in the Grodno Marches and comments in the chat.

The man did not admit guilt, but confirmed only the fact of writing comments on August 11 and 12, 2020. The man's participation in the Grodno Marches was not confirmed after watching videos from events in the city.

It became known that a laboratory and forensic medical examination was carried out in June 2022. She confirmed Andrey's mental illness. However, he was convicted anyway, and also included in the list of individuals and organizations involved in terrorist activities.

In August 2023, she was transferred to the prison regime.

For the first time, Alexander Petushkov was detained in January 2022, after which the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published a video with him. The reason for the detention was his comments about the events in Kazakhstan.

Alexander was detained again in April 2022. The reason for the initiation of a criminal case were reposts and comments with calls for a strike, the shutdown of enterprises, and the renewal of protests. He also offered to remove the shoulder straps to law enforcement officers and generals. In relation to Lukashenko, he used the words «usurper» and «illegitimate».

According to the prosecution version, from July 15 to December 27, 2021, he posted comments under publications in chats recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, where he insulted Lukashenko and other government officials and their relatives, and also left threats against officials performing their official duties.

The publications contained messages related to the abuse of the National Anthem of the Republic of Belarus and the National Flag of the Republic of Belarus.

Detained in the case of «railway partisans».

It is known that the man lives in the village of Khodakovo, he has a small child.

During the arrest, he was shot through the knee joints.

The family believes that Vitaly has nothing to do with the articles, and connects the detention with the revenge of a local judge, as well as the fact that Vitaly previously had a criminal record.

Details of the case are unknown.

According to the charge, Ivan gave the administrators of the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus information about the personal life of a close relative of a police officer. The collection and dissemination of this information without permission led to harm to the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the victim.

Convicted for messages in the chat «‎‎Grodno dlia zhizni» with calls for direct action actions, as well as about the manufacture of Molotov cocktails. He pleaded guilty at the trial, but refused to testify.

Previously, he was brought to administrative responsibility for participating in protests.

According to the investigation, from September 2021 to January 2022, Vasily posted messages in destructive Telegram channels insulting government officials, including senior officials of the Republic of Belarus.

He also threatened to use violence against law enforcement and judicial officers, publicly humiliating their honor and dignity. In addition, the man called on citizens to take action to organize mass riots. In extremist Telegram channels, he looked for people willing to commit "crimes", but did not follow through with his intentions, as he was detained by law enforcement officers.

The accused was also ordered to pay monetary compensation for moral damages in the total amount of 32,000 Belarusian rubles to the victims.

On January 31, 2023, another trial of a pensioner began in Dzerzhinsk. This time, he was charged under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a Government Official).

On 13.02.2023 the second verdict was announced.

On March 23, 2023, the Drogichin District Court began to consider the case of political prisoner under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus Vasily Demidovich was placed in the Drogichin temporary detention facility.

In April, the political prisoner was transferred to Gomel's pretrial detention center No. 3. On April 20, 2023, the Sovietsky District Court of Gomel began to consider another case of the pensioner. He is charged under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and Article 391 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. On May 2, another sentence was handed down.

On May 5, 2023, Demidovich's fifth trial will begin - the man is again accused under Article 369 of the Criminal Code . The trial will take place in Pukhovichi, judge - Olga Babuk .

The next meeting is scheduled for May 24, 2023 in Pukhovichi.

On July 5, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court considered the appeal of the political prisoner by Judge Ruslan Tsaruk.

On August 23, 2023, the Nesvizh District Court heard the sixth criminal case against a political prisoner.

In Starye Dorogi, the seventh trial of Vasily will begin on October 19, 2023. In total, Vasilywas sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment, while the results of the last two trials are still unknown.

Due to the fact that the political prisoner was included in the "terrorist list", he cannot make money transfers. In addition, Vasily has no relatives who could support him. Over the past year, he has survived dozens of transfers. Political prisoners are transferred in difficult conditions, which leaves a very bad mark on Vasily's health.

On December 15, 2023, the trial of Vasily, which began in October, resumed in Starye Dorogi.

At the end of June 2025, Vasily’s residential building was sold at an auction on the BelYurObespechenie platform.

An employee of the «Baranovichi department of the Belarusian Railway», as well as the «Lida Locomotive Depot».

According to the case file, in the period from November 2020 to January 2022, the man posted messages in the communities of the vk.com social network containing insults and threats of violence against Lukashenko.

He also, in February 2022, posted messages aimed at inciting national and other social discord and hostility against the Russian military.

He's a taxi driver. There are two juvenile children in the family.

Convicted for comments from June 2020 to August 2020 in telegram chats.