Mikalai Mikalayevich Krupadziorau
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Mikalai Mikalayevich Krupadziorau
Gomel Zheleznodorozhny District Court. Judge.
Involved in issuing at least 13 politically motivated court decisions, resulting in sentences of at least 32 days of administrative arrest, at least 2,025 rubles in fines, and at least three years of imprisonment or restricted freedom.
He sentenced political prisoner Polina Sharenda-Panasyuk to an additional year in a penal colony in addition to her two-year sentence. Polina, the mother of two minor sons, was charged under several articles of the Criminal Code: Article 364 (Violence against police officers), Article 368 (Insulting Lukashenko), and Article 369 (Insulting a government official). A new criminal case was then opened for malicious disobedience to prison administration (Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code).
He found Yevgeny Ragutsky guilty under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to two years in a penal colony. The case was heard behind closed doors. Prior to the hearing, he had been under house arrest for almost a year. Yevgeny has had rheumatoid arthritis since childhood.
He sentenced deaf-mute Dmitry Zalomsky to two years in prison for insulting Lukashenko (Article 368 of the Criminal Code) and a government official (Article 369 of the Criminal Code), and for inciting violence against a judge (Article 389 of the Criminal Code) via Telegram. The trial was closed, so the details of the case are unknown. Dmitry has been recognized as a political prisoner.
He ordered the transfer of political prisoner Natalya Khershe from a penal colony to a prison with harsher conditions. The exact reasons for this decision are unknown.
Gomel Zheleznodorozhny District Court. Judge.
Involved in issuing at least 13 politically motivated court decisions, resulting in sentences of at least 32 days of administrative arrest, at least 2,025 rubles in fines, and at least three years of imprisonment or restricted freedom.
He sentenced political prisoner Polina Sharenda-Panasyuk to an additional year in a penal colony in addition to her two-year sentence. Polina, the mother of two minor sons, was charged under several articles of the Criminal Code: Article 364 (Violence against police officers), Article 368 (Insulting Lukashenko), and Article 369 (Insulting a government official). A new criminal case was then opened for malicious disobedience to prison administration (Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code).
He found Yevgeny Ragutsky guilty under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to two years in a penal colony. The case was heard behind closed doors. Prior to the hearing, he had been under house arrest for almost a year. Yevgeny has had rheumatoid arthritis since childhood.
He sentenced deaf-mute Dmitry Zalomsky to two years in prison for insulting Lukashenko (Article 368 of the Criminal Code) and a government official (Article 369 of the Criminal Code), and for inciting violence against a judge (Article 389 of the Criminal Code) via Telegram. The trial was closed, so the details of the case are unknown. Dmitry has been recognized as a political prisoner.
He ordered the transfer of political prisoner Natalya Khershe from a penal colony to a prison with harsher conditions. The exact reasons for this decision are unknown.
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Evgeny was detained in March 2023 and convicted under administrative article 19.11, part 2 (“distribution, production, storage, and transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity”), after which a criminal case was opened against him.
In January 2024, he was found guilty of a number of criminal charges, including "organizing mass riots" and "inciting hostility or discord," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
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.
Yuri was convicted under the article “insulting a government official” and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type institution.
A court hearing on regime change took place in October 2024, the outcome is unknown.
Dmitry, a deaf-mute, was convicted in September 2021 of "insulting Lukashenko," "insulting government officials," and "threatening violence against a judge." According to the prosecution, he used a computer to post a photo of Lukashenko with a negative assessment of him on a Telegram channel, published insulting messages about a government official in October 2020, and called for violence against a deputy court chairperson in February 2021.
In the courtroom, Dmitry was taken into custody and his hearing aid was confiscated.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Natalia, a citizen of Belarus and Switzerland, was detained on September 19, 2020, during the Women's March, a protest in Minsk. During her arrest, she tried to free herself and tore off the balaclava of a riot police officer. As a result, she was charged and convicted of "resisting a police officer."
In September 2021, the court changed Natalia's detention regime to prison.
She was released on February 18, 2022, thanks to diplomatic efforts by the Swiss authorities.
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The social activist was detained on January 3, 2021, at her home after security forces broke down the door, conducted a search, and seized some of her belongings. Polina was convicted of "threatening to use violence against an internal affairs officer" and "insulting a government official." She refused to testify either during the investigation or in court.
In April 2022, Polina's sentence was extended on charges of "disobeying the demands of the prison administration," and in October 2023, she was convicted again under the same article. Polina is the first female political prisoner in Belarus to be convicted under this article. The article is used against prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, often for alleged violations.
The political prisoner is systematically subjected to psychological pressure and physical violence; she has been repeatedly placed in solitary confinement, punishment cells and punishment cells.
The BNR Rada awarded Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk the Order of the Pursuit.
In March 2024, a propaganda story about Polina accidentally showed a yellow tag indicating the end date of her imprisonment: May 21. However, she was not released on that day, and she was charged for the third time with “disobeying the prison administration,” for which she was convicted again in October 2024.
She was released on February 1, 2025, having fully served her sentence (4 consecutive terms).