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.
Detained together with her husband Alexey. According to court schedules, they want to collect money from Lyudmila and Alexey through the court for the maintenance of their children while they are in custody.
Lyudmila has 3 children, two of them are minors.
Trial outcome 29.11.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Maxillofacial surgeon, Belarusian writer, translator, two-time champion of Belarus in taekwondo. Elena is the sister of activist and political prisoner Maxim Vinyarsky, sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Alena is preliminary accused under Art. 342 part 1. The woman is probably in a pre-trial detention center. The family has four children at home.
Trial outcome 20.06.2024:
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction
He was detained together with his wife Lyudmila. According to court records, they want to collect money from Lyudmila and Alexey through the courts for the maintenance of their children while they are in custody.
Trial outcome 28.11.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
In a video on a pro-government channel, Pavel says that he participated in rallies, “went with protest symbols, went out onto the roadway, took photos, selfies, and for four years he himself did not report to the police.”
"My punishment will probably involve imprisonment," he says at the end of the video.
On September 10, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
In early September 2025, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 19.07.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Dmitry was detained after the Telegram chat "Atolino" was designated an "extremist group" by the KGB on August 31 and added to the corresponding list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on September 6.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs lists the names of the group's members: Pavel Ivanov, Dmitry Tikunov, Evgeniya Mostovaya (Grigorik), Pavel Belonitsky, Alexey Semenov, Yury Antonovich, Alexander Zaitsev, and Vladimir Polekh.
The prosecutor requested a 3-year prison sentence for Dmitry, but the court ultimately sentenced him to 2.5 years.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the fall of 2025.
Trial outcome 27.05.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Boris was arrested in January 2024 and convicted that spring on several criminal charges, including "insulting government officials and Lukashenko" and "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order." The court sentenced him to imprisonment.
As of the beginning of December 2025, he was inthe hospitalat Pre-trial Detention CenterNo.1 undergoing surgery .
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 16.05.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Artem is a Ukrainian citizen who has lived in Belarus since 2009 and in recent years worked as a DJ in Brest, Kobrin, and Minsk.
According to his mother, Artyom was summoned to the migration service in January 2023 and asked to undergo a polygraph test. Soon after, unknown individuals in civilian clothes came to his home, and on January 27, he stopped responding. His mother repeatedly contacted the KGB, but she was not informed of the reasons for his detention, only that Artyom "posed a threat to the Republic of Belarus."
In May 2024, he was convicted of “intelligence activity” 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.
A businessman and co-founder of Industrial Kinetic Lab, a manufacturer of stone processing equipment. He is also the former director of the security department at the Belagro group of companies. Until recently, he was the director of Molpak, a dairy wholesaler. In late January 2024, the businessman was named as one of the organizers of the "extremist group Trielit." This is the courtyard chat group of the partnership that manages new buildings in Minsk, including buildings at 126, 128, and 130 Bogdanovich Street.
On July 23, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
He was released in September 2025, having served his full sentence.
Trial outcome 03.05.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The woman was accused of participating in a protest in Minsk in 2020 and entering the roadway. Olga fully admitted her guilt. Olga's husband acted as a witness at the trial.
The Minsk resident was identified from a protest photo that was found on Instagram. After the verdict was announced, Olga was released in the courtroom, and the preventive measure was changed to a written undertaking not to leave.
Olga Nikiforova has a higher education and is self-employed.
Trial outcome 24.04.2024
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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