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.
Alexander was convicted in the spring of 2025 under the articles "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
Trial outcome 17.03.2025
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 17.09.2025
1 year 3 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 100 basic values fine.
Nikolai was arrested on December 20, 2024, and in March 2025, he was convicted under the article “organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them” and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 05.03.2025
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
He worked as a tinsmith at a private firm. When the 2020 election campaign began, he attended signature-collecting pickets, then marches. In the fall of 2020, Alexander was detained by KGB officers and sentenced to 15 days in jail. After that, he was repeatedly summoned for "interviews": "They took a polygraph test in connection with a case involving a broken window, conducted by some judge or investigator," he recalls .
In January 2025, officers from the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) visited him at work and took him to the Pervomaisky District Police Department. He was sentenced to 10 days in a temporary detention facility. A criminal case was then opened for participating in protests and he was transferred to a prison in Kolyadichi, where he spent two months before his trial.
Trial outcome 21.03.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Irina worked for over 15 years at Peleng JSC, a leading design and engineering company in the optical-electronics industry. Most recently, she held the position of Category 1 Design Engineer in the Structured Cable Systems Research and Design Department, in the Production Systems Support Sector.
Irina was likely detained as part of a raid on the company that began in the summer of 2024. In March 2025, she was convicted of "calling for sanctions" and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 12.03.2025
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The girl posted her last photo on social media on November 18, 2024, from Turkey. After that, she went to Belarus — that’s probably when she was detained. She hasn’t appeared online on Telegram for a long time, and her social media has been inactive since November. The girl is probably now in a pretrial detention center.
After graduating from MSLU, Veronica worked for three years as a flight attendant at Qatar Airways. Veronica's other passion is modeling and acting.
In mid-August 2025, information appeared that Veronica was already at large. She posted a photo from the Philippines.
Trial outcome 04.03.2025
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
It is known that Alexey was held in custody until the trial.
On November 16, 2024, in the Frunzensky District Court of Minsk, Judge Yulia Valentinovna Volkovich will make a decision "On replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open-type correctional facility."
Trial outcome 29.07.2024
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Alexander was convicted in January 2025 under the articles “insulting Lukashenko,” “inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred or discord,” “insulting a government official,” and “creating or participating in an extremist group” and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 31.01.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 100 basic values fine.
Maksim Yermolovich is 31 years old. He comes from the village of Stayki (most likely, Baranovichi district). He graduated from the mechanical engineering and technology department of the Belarusian National Technical University.
The security forces reported his arrest in January 2023. At that time, they claimed that the guy had fallen for a fake mailing of the “victory” plan, which was carried out by the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.
Trial outcome 18.02.2025
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Elena graduated from the Minsk State Linguistic University in 2019. She later worked as an English teacher at various private schools, including Step by Step, Kidslab, and others.
She was convicted in February 2025 of "inciting social hatred" and "calls for sanctions" and sentenced to imprisonment. An appeal hearing was held in early April of that year, and the sentence was upheld.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 12.02.2025
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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