Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric

According to pro-government media, he is accused of financing terrorist activities in exchange for a donation of 50 USD to the Kalinovsky Regiment in 2023.

It is known that in Poland Oreshko worked as a human resources specialist — he looked for people to employ. He came to Belarus periodically. It is not known when he returned last, but he was detained several months ago.

Аreshko is currently in a pre-trial detention facility.

First, Ivan was arrested for 15 days , then placed in a pretrial detention facility on a criminal case.

When in June 2024 the KGB of Belarus declared the Media IQ project an extremist group, it named Pitkevich among its participants. Around the same time, Polina's accounts were last online.

Polina Pitkevich was born in 1994. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University (2016). She was fond of theater and for some time played as an actress in the Laboratory of Social Theater in Minsk. As a journalist, she wrote on cultural topics. Polina is also known for her love of animals - on her social media pages, you can find many ads about helping homeless tailed ones. According to friends, Polina had more than one rescued cat living in her house.

Mozyr activist and blogger Polina Zyl. Nasha Niva has learned that she was charged with participating in protests and belonging to an "extremist group." Her boyfriend, Maksim Shukanov, was arrested along with her. There has been no information about his release; he is likely also in pretrial detention.

After Zyl's arrest, security forces gained access to a bot used by informants from the Belarusian Gayun OSINT monitoring project. A fatal technical error lay in the fact that the link with access rights to Gayun's bot, which she had once received—apparently back in 2022—had no expiration date. It's unlikely that Zyl knew this, and it's unlikely that Motoľko remembered it, but nevertheless, even in 2025, it was possible to access the bot and gain access to all the information. This is precisely what ultimately happened. When security forces detained Polina in February 2025 and gained access to her mobile phone, they were able to connect to the bot and extract all the information. They obtained messages from the accounts that had written to the bot, as well as their IDs and usernames.

Polina is 31 years old. She is originally from Yelsk and studied in Mozyr. In 2020, she supported the protests and even received a day's detention. Polina then retreated into the shadows but remained in the country. Both Zyl and Shukanov were wanted by authorities but refused to leave Belarus.

Viktor was born in the Russian Federation, but has Belarusian citizenship. He lived in Ratomka.

The Linkedin page indicates that since 2018, Viktor has worked as a senior communications engineer at customs. This is probably what the criminal case against the man for "abuse of power or official authority" is connected to.

Father Nikolai, 47, was detained along with his wife Elena, 46, and their son Nikita, 24, for participating in the 2020 protest.

Artem has worked in this field all his life - as a veterinarian, a teacher at the Smilovichi State Agricultural College, a technician. He is also the director of the veterinary company "Khimvet".

Artem's last comments date back to May 2024, after which he disappeared from social media. That's probably when he was detained .

It seems that the issue is in his social media posts and comments on Telegram - the accounts are called by his own name, and the Telegram account is linked to Artem's own phone.

A student at the Minsk State Linguistic University. Detained in September 2024. Initially, she was sentenced to two days in prison under an administrative article, after which a criminal case was opened. According to acquaintances, the criminal case is politically motivated.

Alina Shevtsova was added to the list of participants of the "extremist formation" "School of Leadership for Women" at the end of September 2024. This is an educational project for Belarusian female students, which helps them develop leadership skills.

Dmitry started in the 1990s in Borisov. After 1998, he moved to the investigation department of the Zhodino GOVD, and from 2004 to 2012 he headed it. Then he worked in the Investigative Committee, from where he retired. After retirement, he worked at the Smolevichi Dairy Plant and was a city deputy in Zhodino.

In 2020, he and four other former employees of the Zhodino City Department of Internal Affairs recorded an appeal to colleagues who worked in the Zhodino police during the protests and to all law enforcement officers in Belarus.

"By following the orders given by your superiors, you may become accomplices to crimes. You cannot beat up people who are simply returning from work on the night shift. <…> I know of cases where people were detained for no reason and excessive cruelty was shown - you should not do this," Vdovin said in his address.

According to media reports , all five were detained in early February 2024.

He started in 1999 as an investigator in the Zhodino police. It is known that he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel of justice. Until the spring of 2014, Vitaly worked as the head of the Smolevichi District Department of the Investigative Committee.

In 2020, he and four other former employees of the Zhodino City Department of Internal Affairs recorded an appeal to their colleagues who worked in the Zhodino police during the protests, and to all employees of law enforcement agencies in Belarus. Paprotsky says in the appeal that he has served the people all his life. Vitaly says that those who stood up for people were repressed, he suggests "coming to their senses and thinking." Paprotsky says that he supports those who work according to the law.

According to media reports , all five were detained in early February 2024.