Paul Ivanovich Kazakov
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Grodno Prison 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.
On July 11, 2023, political prisoner Ales Pushkin died in a hospital in Grodno. He was taken there from the territory of Prison No. 1 in Grodno. As the head of this prison, he is responsible for the conditions of detention and the untimely provision of medical care to prisoners, which led to a tragic outcome.
In particular, his actions clearly show disregard for the rights of prisoners, including for political reasons.
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Grodno Prison 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.
On July 11, 2023, political prisoner Ales Pushkin died in a hospital in Grodno. He was taken there from the territory of Prison No. 1 in Grodno. As the head of this prison, he is responsible for the conditions of detention and the untimely provision of medical care to prisoners, which led to a tragic outcome.
In particular, his actions clearly show disregard for the rights of prisoners, including for political reasons.
List of repressed
Pro-government telegram channels report that the man left for Poland, from where he allegedly insulted police officers and Lukashenko.
He was detained after returning to Belarus.
Vladimir was detained on June 23 for administrative reasons. As a result, under two articles, 19.10 and 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus, he received 10 days of arrest.
However, he was not released on July 3 and was detained for another 72 hours. On July 5, he was charged with criminal charges.
According to Vladimir’s relatives, a criminal case was opened for liking comments that were regarded as insulting the honor and dignity of Alexander Lukashenko and Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin.
On November 24, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted for a comment in a chat about Lukashenka: “Stupid idiot, he will burn in hell.” He was released at the end of April-beginning of May 2023 at the end of his term.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Maxim was detained on June 2, 2022 as part of a criminal case on protest graffiti.
He has a wife and a small child.
On March 16, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
A well-known Grodno musician, a member of the Kontur and Hard Blues Shot groups, as well as the owner of the Showtime music store. Arrested for a Facebook post he wrote in 2020.
According to the court decision, all charges against Yuri were dropped and he was released in the courtroom.
Grodno musician and guitarist of the band Deviation”. The reason for the detention was the musician's tattoo.
The case was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
He was allegedlydetained for posting “extremist” materials on social networks, insulting Lukashenko and officials, and registering with the Peramoga plan.
According to human rights activists , he was released on February 1, 2025.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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”).
On February 16, 2022, Natalya Malets was detained in Grodno. She was detained along with her daughter. As the latter said, when Natalya refused to provide her phone to the security forces, they took her by the hair with the words “You still don’t understand who is in power here?”.
On December 28, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1 year in prison
The first time she was detained for participating in protest actions.
She was detained again on September 23, 2022 while trying to cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border.
He is on trial together with Egorov Kuzin and Nikolai Kuleshov about illegal border crossing.
In May 2022, a trial was held over him, he was sentenced to imprisonment.
On April 29, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Imprisonment in a penal colony.
- Associations
Dentist-orthopedist of the first qualification category of the medical and sanitary unit «Grodno Azot».
At least 8 law enforcement officers broke into the dentist's house, put him face down on the floor. When asked what he has to do with protest activities, Alexander replied: «Absolutely none».
The video of the search of Alexander's house on the channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs showed a pistol, cartridges and magazines with naked women. The man explained that he brought the cartridges from Mongolia, they have been stored with him since 1990. The law enforcement officers did not substantiate which law he violated with magazines and why they drew attention to them.
In a video posted on the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Duraev said that he was detained for insulting officials and the president in social networks.
Sasha has no close relatives in Belarus. He is a great connoisseur of music, hi-fi, drummer.
- Associations
- Entrepreneurs
Deputy director of a grocery store.
Convicted for comments on Telegram.
02.11.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
- Associations
- Entrepreneurs
Director of the Vilna printing house.
She was detained on April 4, 2022 in the case of «railway partisans», after she came from Lithuania to Belarus for the anniversary of her mother's death.
The propaganda film on «BT» shows a piece of Alesya's interrogation, where she tells how she bought Lithuanian SIM cards a few days before her trip to Belarus, shows where she hid them on the territory of the country, how she filmed everything to send to her curator in Lithuania. And also that she had to send young people when they arrived at the border. Finally, she was charged under Part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code - intentional illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus committed by an organized group.
05/03/2024 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
| 14.05.2022 | As of May 10, 2022, she received only three letters from her son, although dozens of letters and postcards were sent by friends and relatives. |
3.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The sentence was reduced by a year due to an amnesty.
