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.
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Detained for participating in protests.
On October 17, 2022, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
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The woman worked in the service «One-window» of the Oktyabrsky district of Minsk.
He is suspected of transferring personal data of law enforcement officers to telegram channels.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
5. 5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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The recent deputy director General of «BelTA» for ideological work, previously worked in the administration of Lukashenko and even received awards from him.
The exact date of the former official's detention is unknown. But it is known that on September 8, 2021, representatives of law enforcement agencies made a report that during the complex of operational search measures, information was received that the current employee of «BelTA» Aderikho may be providing the telegram channel «Nick and Mike» with classified information about Alexander Lukashenko's work schedule. Soon the official was detained.
The case was handled by employees of the State Security Committee. Aderikho was held in custody before the trial. Now Aderikho is convicted of transferring official information that was under his jurisdiction to a representative of the «People's Anti-Crisis Management» and the telegram channel «Nick and Mike». The motive is avoiding lustration after a change of power.
In addition to the term in the colony, Sergei was awarded a penalty 16 000 BYN.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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Citizen of the Russian Federation, has been living in Minsk for 16 years.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020.
Convicted of participating in protests and setting fire to a car (the exact information on the charge is unknown).
It became known that Maxim was tried on May 12, 2023 under Part 2 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code. The verdict is unknown.
Convicted for participating in protests.
From September 16, 2023, Egor was transferred to prison regime. There, the political prisoner must serve 2 years.
On July 31, 2025, Yegor was convicted under Article 411 of the Criminal Code for "malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution executing a sentence of imprisonment" to another 10 months and 14 days of imprisonment.
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A social activist from Minsk.
She was detained on February 17, 2022 at her place of residence. Her house was searched.
At first, she was sentenced to administrative arrest, but after the end of the arrest, Anastasia did not go free.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was detained for participating in protest actions. He was also accused of receiving telescopic batons, stun guns and other means from abroad.
Arseny graduated from the College of Business and Law with a degree in jurisprudence and has a driver's license. Before his arrest, he worked as a pizza delivery courier. The guy has leukoma and needs regular medical monitoring and an annual MRI. Arseny is prohibited from many physical activities.
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He was detained together with his wife for setting fire to logs to disrupt railway traffic.
The wife was released from the Temporary Detention Center, the man remained in custody.
In the published news in the channel supporting the current state power, Sergei was severely beaten.
11 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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Sergei was arrested in August 2021 on politically motivated terrorism charges for his non-violent activities. He reportedly communicated with Interior Ministry officers to persuade them to refuse to carry out criminal orders, and also helped those who were leaving the service and feared persecution.
According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, "an organized criminal group operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries with the goal of committing extremist crimes. The group included radical individuals, including former and current military personnel, law enforcement officers, athletes and businessmen, who sought to seize power illegally." The case involves charges of attempted arson of the home of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and "organizing mass riots."
Sergei was convicted under numerous criminal articles to a long term of imprisonment, the first five of which were prison terms. He was also stripped of his military rank.
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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".
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According to the case file, in January 2021 Gavrilov purchased and provided aerosol cans with paint to two acquaintances — Tatiana Birulya 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. They also put an inscription on the wall of one of the houses in relation to Lukashenko, in which they accused him of a particularly serious crime, that is, they committed slander.
Then, from August to December 2021, the defendants distributed leaflets and other printed materials on the territory of Soligorsk. The content of these leaflets was allegedly aimed at inciting social hostility and discord on the basis of other social affiliation.
At the end of winter 2024, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Oleg and his wife.
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.
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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.
