Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
List of repressed
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Nikita Storozhenko is a former detective. He resigned after the presidential elections of Belarus in 2020 in protest against the current government. After his dismissal, Nikita worked as a lawyer.
He was detained on April 23, 2021 for "unauthorized picketing", convicted and sentenced to 15 days in prison according to Article part 1 of Article 24.23 of the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Administrative Offenses. He was released on May 8, 2021.
On May 4, 2021, Storozhenko, like other law enforcement officials who resigned in protest, was deprived of the rank of senior lieutenant of justice reserve by Lukashenka.
Nikita was detained again on February 1, 2022 in a shopping center in Minsk. In a video posted on the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he says that he transferred the contacts of two employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption and the deputy head of the Investigative Committee for Minsk to one of the "protest telegram channels".
The trial took place on November 15, 2022 in the Minsk City Court. Nikita was tried for "inciting other social enmity and discord" under Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, as well as for "illegal collection and dissemination of information about private life" (Part 1 of Article 179 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus).
On December 2, 2022, he was sentenced to seven years in a high-security penal colony. he is also obliged to pay a fine of 5 000 BYN (2 056 USD) as moral compensation to employees, whose data, according to the prosecution, he transmitted to the "protest telegram channel".
Detained for drawing using stencils of "Chase".
Anatoly Latushka is the cousin of politician Pavel Latushko.
On March 22, 2024, he was transferred to prison regime until the end of his term.
- Associations
- Twice political prisoners
- Parents of minors
She was detained for drawing "Pahonia" stencils. On September 20, the Central District Court of Minsk sentenced three political prisoners: Anatoly Latushka, the cousin of politician Pavel Latushko, Lilia Ananyan, and Elena Malinovskaya. At the trial, Latushko and Malinovskaya pleaded not guilty, while Ananyan fully admitted her guilt. Judge Dmitry Karsyuk sentenced Anatoly to six years in prison, Elena to four years in prison, and Lilia to five years of house arrest, before releasing her in the courtroom.
Elena has a minor son left at home.
Elena was supposed to be released at the end of August 2025, but she was never released. As Elena's friends told Nasha Niva , she was transported to Minsk, where a new criminal case was opened against her .
Yuri was initially sentenced to three years of house arrest, and then, in November 2021, to three years of restricted freedom with a placement in an open correctional facility. Both cases involved charges of insulting government officials.
In 2022, a third criminal case was opened against him under the articles "violence or threat of violence against a police officer," "insulting a government official," and "insulting a judge." In December of that year, Yuri was sentenced to five years of restricted freedom with a referral.
- Associations
- IT staff
He is a programmer, enjoys music and fishing. Very inquisitive, knowledgeable in many areas. Studies English and German. He always knew that he would live in Germany, loves the Rammstein band, listens to them all his life, knows all the songs by heart.
The channels supporting the current state authorities reported that Artem was detained for having developed a barcode scanning program to boycott companies that support the current government.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He was detained as part of a criminal case on November 9, 2021 for participating in protests. First, he was placed in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, then transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.
He was also accused of receiving telescopic batons, stun guns and other means from abroad.
- Associations
- Activists
- Parents of minors
The activist of the "European Belarus" was detained on December 30, 2021 in a criminal case on group actions that grossly violate public order.
On January 7, 2022, the woman was transferred to a pre-trial detention facility.
Elena has a little son.
In January 2023, Elena was transferred to Gomel Women's Colony No. 4. For a long time, a lawyer could not get to the political prisoner; she was placed in a punishment cell.
In October 2023, it became known that Elena's parcel was not accepted in August. This most likely indicates that she was deprived of parcels. The last letter from Elena arrived in early September, and there have been no letters from her since then. Since Lazarchik's transfer to the colony, permission has never been received from the institution's administration to meet with a lawyer. What is happening to Elena now, what condition she is in, is unknown. Elena has problems with her teeth in the colony, and she has lost weight.
In mid-November 2023, human rights activists learned that Elena had been placed in solitary confinement again.
According to the testimony of the former political prisoner, Elena served more than 90 days in a punishment cell and more than 60 days in a PKT .
In the spring of 2025, Elena was convicted under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the legal demands of the colony administration) and sentenced to another year and a half in prison in addition to eight years of imprisonment. It is unknown when the sentence was handed down . It is known that Elena refused the services of a lawyer at the trial.
Detained together with her mother.
The apartment was searched under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Then the article of accusation was reclassified to Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
He is previously accused of distributing personal data of Interior Ministry employees.
Detained together with her daughter.
The apartment was searched under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Then the article of accusation was reclassified to Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
He is previously accused of distributing personal data of Interior Ministry employees.
- Associations
- Athletes
He is a fitness trainer from Soligorsk.
According to the case file, in January 2021 Gavrilov purchased and provided aerosol cans with paint to two acquaintances — Tatiana and Oleg Birulya. After that, Tatiana and Oleg, from January to February 2021, applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure facilities in Soligorsk, carrying out their damage.
In August 2021, Gavrilov, through agreements, including for material remuneration, involved another acquaintance, Sergei Pasyuk, in engaging in extremist activities.
Then, from August to December 2021, the defendants distributed leaflets and other printed materials on the territory of Soligorsk. The examination of the contents of the «Honest Newspaper», with copies of which the coach was detained, testified that Gavrilov was allegedly involved in inciting racial, national, religious or other social enmity or discord committed by a group of persons.
- Associations
- Activists
- Entrepreneurs
- Parents of minors
The creator of the store Symbal.by , cultural manager.
He was detained on November 15, 2021 after being called to the police. Then Pavel was convicted three times on administrative cases (for 15, 13 and 7 days of arrest), and after that he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case.
13 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under a reinforced regime.
- Associations
- Entrepreneurs
According to the case materials, Kuzmitsky, having perverted values and a wrong understanding of the word «patriotism», purposefully joined a terrorist organization and headed certain resources of the network «...97».
He administered more than 30 chats, which he filled with extremist materials under strict control and guidance from abroad. The man formed the composition of extremist communities, distributed roles and organized the participation of their members in protest actions.
In addition, he took measures to unite and increase the number of communities: morally supported them in private conversations, organized joint leisure activities, distribution of propaganda products, drawing drawings and inscriptions of an extremist nature on the facades of buildings.
15 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
- Associations
- Civil servants
- IT staff
A former law enforcement officer, then worked at EPAM before being detained.
He was detained in October 2021 under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social discord) for transmitting the data of security forces to the telegram channels «Karateli Belarusi» and «Chernaya kniga Belarusi» («Punishers of Belarus» and «Black Book of Belarus»).
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
A resident of Vitebsk.
The girl was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social hostility) for transmitting the data of security forces, teachers, judges to the telegram channel «Chernaya kniga Belarusi» («Black Book of Belarus»).
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
- Associations
- Journalists
He is an investigative journalist, editor of the Belarusian portal «Ezhednevnik» (ej.by ).
Was detained on December 8, 2021. Earlier, Sergei had already been detained in the period from March 25 to April 4, 2020.
Some human rights organizations regarded the repression as evidence of a political motive in the persecution of a journalist aimed at forcing him to stop or change the nature of his activities to disseminate information about corruption.
The reason for the prosecution of the journalist, according to Satsuk's colleagues, were high-profile investigations, primarily concerning large-scale corruption in the medical field. Based on the facts obtained, he told about unprecedented «kickbacks» for the supply of expensive equipment; about the purchase of an unregistered vaccine, which was actually tested on Belarusian children; about falsification of data on the spread of COVID-19 in Belarus. And all this with the approval of the control department — the Ministry of Health.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
