Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution. He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health. It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten. Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution. He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health. It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten. Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
List of repressed
- Associations
- Students
Alexander, a student at the Belarusian State Aviation Academy, was arrested on June 6, 2022 and convicted of, according to investigators, "systematically providing information to the Nexta Telegram channel."
He was released in September 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
Sergei is a military pensioner with the rank of lieutenant colonel. It is known that he participated in protests - he was detained at the Sunday march on November 8, 2020. He was stripped of his military rank by Alexander Lukashenko.
During the trial, it was established that in January 2021, Sergei posted comments with insults against Lukashenko, as well as an employee of his Security Service, on one of the “extremist” Telegram channels.
The judge imposed a sentence of imprisonment for a period of one year in a colony. But the Bobruisk district prosecutor filed an appeal.
The protest was satisfied in full - the final sentence of imprisonment for the totality of crimes was increased to two years.
05/20/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court
The young man was charged with the fact that on February 27, 2022, he sent a video of a military aircraft to the telegram bot. Since this video was posted on the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, these actions were qualified under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Support of extremist activity).
Konstantin was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Assistant driver at the locomotive depot in Gomel.
Accused of participating in protests.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in October 2025.
Journalist, editor of special projects ABW.bΡ.
He was arrested for participating in protests.
He was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
- Associations
- People with disabilities
Born in Narva, Estonian SSR, to a Soviet military family. Architect. Graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute.
On his Facebook page, he published posts about the history of Belarus and his views on Russia. "Poland is Belarus's brother, Ukraine its sister!" he wrote in November 2021.
Prior to the trial, the accused was under a travel restriction and was remanded in custody in the courtroom. The Mogilev resident has a third-degree disability, and in April, he spent 17 days undergoing psychological and psychiatric evaluation in Novinki, where he was found sane.
On June 16, 2022, the KGB added him to the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities.”
On September 27, 2022, the appeal was heard and the verdict entered into force.
In June 2025, he was released , having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
According to the prosecution materials, Valery Zakharchik at the beginning of 2022 on the Odnoklassniki social network, after watching a video file insulting a government official - the head of the department of supervisory and executive activities of the public security police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sergei Nikel - he liked and posted the video on his page.
Similarly, on Odnoklassniki I saw a video that, according to the expert opinion, had a negative assessment of the dictator and an obscene form of speech, gave it a “like” and posted it on my page.
On November 22, 2022, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
A programmer who was detained in December 2021 for comments on networks.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
- Associations
- Journalists
The director of the newspaper "Belarusians and the Market" was detained on May 18, 2022, following a search of the editorial office.
He was released in the fall of 2025, having served his full sentence.
Political activist from Grodno. In 2017, he spoke at protests related to the introduction of a “tax on parasitism.” In 2019, I set up a tent in front of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Grodno to solve the housing problem. In 2020, Lavrentiev, together with activist Nikolai Solyanik, held a number of actions for the introduction of quarantine in Belarus during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the 2020 presidential elections, the activist was serving administrative arrest for an action during a meeting with Sergei Tikhanovsky. In the fall of 2020, he left Belarus for Poland.
In Poland, he volunteered to help two Belarusian refugees. but in December 2020, Alexander disappeared from a rented apartment in Bialystok. The girls' money also disappeared with him. He did not answer calls or messages. He told his friend that he calmly crossed the Polish-Belarusian border, but his case in Belarus was closed due to lack of evidence. In 2021, Alexander purchased a food truck and worked in one of the microdistricts of Grodno. I was selling shawarma. On May 2, 2022, Lavrentyev was detained right at his workplace. Detained by the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Grodno Region. After the arrest, the Grodno resident said on camera that he was detained for distributing extremist information online and insulting the president. He admitted guilt.
On October 11, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
In the summer of 2024, it became known that Grodno resident Alexander Lavrentiev was given another 1 year of imprisonment in a colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution”).
The case was initiated for distributing and mailing leaflets calling for counting the votes of voters honestly.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
A famous Belarusian musician. He played in the bands Krambambulya, ZET, Pomidor/off and Hasta la Fillsta.
Convicted of "slander" and "insult".
At the end of October 2022, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Vladislav.
According to the indictment, Plyushchev reposted to the Telegram chat "Pruzhany is not your city" from "extremist" channels. He also allegedly left offensive comments about government officials and posted information that was deliberately false, degrading, and slanderous. A total of 43 people were recognized as victims in the case.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in February 2025, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
He was detained on January 13, 2022 on an administrative case for 15 days, then for another 12, but he was not released - a criminal case was opened about offensive comments on the Internet.
According to human rights activists, he was released on December 1, 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
