All persecuted

Aleksey Mikhalkevich was detained by the GUBOPiK in the village of Doroshki, Minsk region on December 16, 2020 “on suspicion of involvement in the riots that took place in Minsk.”

Arrested on September 13, 2020 for the events in Minsk in August. According to the case file , Falkin, Litvinenko, Matyukh and Borisov, having entered into an agreement, planned participation in protests, determined the route, coordinated actions in case of detention. The defendants were in a telegram chat called "Hour X", where the discussion took place. In this chat, according to the investigation, an attack on police officers was being prepared.

Ovcharov and Huseynov were found guilty of calling for participation in mass riots on September 23 from 21.00 to 23.00, which were planned in advance under the guise of mass events, blocking communications. This caused a disruption in the work of "Minsktrans". Also - "restricted the right of respectable citizens to a peaceful rest and free movement", resisted the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to the indictment, in September they prepared a car where they kept the weapons of crime, equipment, having studied the rules for their use in advance. For example, Huseynov was near the metro station. "Pushkinskaya" in body armor and knee pads for defense.

a resident of Brest, who was detained on February 8, 2021 for allegedly throwing green paint at a police car.

Andrei Lyubetsky was detained on the morning of May 4 at his home. His wife Natalya and four children had previously gone abroad. He is suspected of insult.

According to investigators, the surgeon “repeatedly publicly spoke about his decision to violate the medical oath given to him... and in every possible way interfere with the provision of medical care to police officers and members of their families, and called on his colleagues to commit similar illegal actions.” Lyubetsky is also accused of participating in at least eight protests in Minsk and writing posts on social networks that were classified as insults and inciting hatred.

On April 7, 2022, the trial of Andrei Lyubetsky began in the Minsk City Court. On April 18, judge Svetlana Cherepanova sentenced the doctor to five years in prison in a general regime colony. This is exactly the punishment that prosecutor Zhanna Baranova requested for Lyubetsky.

On May 11, 2022, he was transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 1 to Zhodino ST No. 8, and a week later to Mogilev Prison No. 4. Since mid-July 2022, Andrei served his sentence in Bobruisk colony No. 2.

On June 26, in Bobruisk, they considered the case of replacing Andrey’s detention regime with a prison one. Judge Pavel Kartinin decided to transfer the political prisoner to prison until the end of his sentence.

Inhabitant of the Polotsk region. According to the indictment, from October 2019 to July 2020, Lyutsky posted comments on the Internet calling for violence against law enforcement officers and the president, as well as insults against the head of state.

Arrested April 8, 2021. According to Art. 209 the case has been dragging on since 2016, when Vlad did a TV project with ONT. The case was closed, but in August 2020 it was abruptly resumed. Also charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Vlad is a blogger, poet - writer. On the portal of the Ridero.ru online store, books are sold both in printed and electronic form: the story "Ambidexter" and the collection of poems "Poetry Through the Hole", under the pseudonym Vlad Savinn.

On October 26, 2022, a new criminal case was considered against the blogger and producer. Now he's on trial   for insulting Lukashenka in a poem in an appeal against this verdict. Judge Victoria Pakunova appointed the man another two years in prison.

Detained in the courtroom on May 7, 2021 in the case of the telegram channel «Army s narodom».

Evgeny has two juvenile children.

activist from Pruzhany. Elena was sentenced in the "round dance case" to 2 years of restriction of freedom without a referral. After that, she was re-convicted for "insulting the president", the total term was 3 years of "home chemistry". On January 11, 2022, she was detained and given 15 days of arrest for violating the regime of serving "home chemistry". After the arrest, Elena was not released; a new criminal case was opened against her. She was convicted for posting on social networks Facebook and Instagram and sent to a colony for 3.5 years. At the initiative of the administration of the Gomel colony, a criminal case was opened against Elena under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. In addition, she was deprived of almost all programs, calls, dates, and the otovarka was reduced from three basic units to one (32 rubles).

He was convicted of participating in mass riots and under a drug article.

Accused of participating in protests in Pinsk. Detained wife Elena Movshuk. There are children in the family.

special communications officer of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. According to pro-government media, on March 14, while on duty, Denis Urad photographed a secret letter from the Minister of Internal Affairs to the Minister of Defense and "sent it to the Polish Telegram channel."

Denis was an active member of law enforcement agencies. We do not have information about his participation / non-participation in the political persecution of other people. His support is a personal choice of each person.

originally from Buda-Koshelev in Belarus, he was engaged in activism and was a volunteer of the "Country for Life". Ivan Sautin was detained while trying to cross the border with Poland. Detained May 27, 2022 again. At the end of June he was extradited to Belarus. Earlier, he was charged under four articles of the Criminal Code, including terrorism, insulting a government official. As a result, three of the four articles were withdrawn following the results of an audit by the Russian side, which is also confirmed by pro-government channels.

UPD. According to the materials of the case, in 2018 he embezzled more than 68 thousand rubles. At the same time, the investigation notes that in 2020 he participated in protests, "made videos, harassed services, local authorities."

Due to the presence of these facts of persecution for the manifestation of civic position and activity, we believe that Ivan's sentence should at least be reviewed.

Yuri, a politician and lawyer, was arrested on April 12, 2021, in a criminal case opened under the article "conspiracy or other actions committed with the aim of seizing state power." In September 2022, he was sentenced to a long prison term on several criminal charges, despite the fact that he fully admitted his guilt and entered into an agreement with the investigation.

In December 2022, he was convicted again for “insulting a government official.” According to the state-run newspaper Minska Pravda, in 2020–2021, he allegedly repeatedly left offensive comments on a Telegram channel recognized as extremist.

In June 2023, Yuri's sentence was increased, and he was transferred to prison regime. In August 2024, he was convicted of "malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration" - an article under which prisoners are tried for refusing to cooperate or for fictitious violations. As a result, taking into account all the court's decisions, his total term of imprisonment was 13 years and 6 months.

Yuri is under constant pressure: he has been repeatedly sent to solitary confinement, deprived of parcels and the opportunity to shop. In protest, he has gone on hunger strike several times. It is also known that he has serious health problems.

Yauhen Yushkevich is a former investigator from the Investigative Committee. In 2017, he resigned from his position as a senior investigator of the Economic Crime Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee Office in Minsk, and in 2020 he became the developer and initiated the bychange.me project, which helped to provide a different education for law enforcement officers, civil servants, and people who were fired or quit their jobs on grounds of conscience.

The man was tried for more than a month in a closed-door trial on six articles of the Criminal Code, including "organisation of mass disorder" in 2020, "inciting social hatred" in interviews and texts on social media, and "threatening violence" to the head of the Temporary Detention Facility (IVS) on Okrestina via a tweet. It is reported that Yushkevich was "an active participant in the Telegram chat "HATA", whose activities are aimed at organising extremist crimes".