Paul Ivanovich Kazakov

The first time she was detained by the KGB at the end of January 2024 (during the mass detentions of relatives and friends of political prisoners) for writing letters and transferring money to the accounts of political prisoners in the pre-trial detention center of prison No. 1. Then a criminal case was opened against her under Art. 361-2 (financing extremist activities), but the woman was not taken into custody.

During the search, equipment and money were confiscated from her. After examining the technique, unwanted comments were allegedly discovered on social networks, and an examination was then carried out on them. After receiving the results of the examination, on April 20, 2024, Victoria was re-detained and placed in a temporary detention facility, and subsequently in a pre-trial detention center.

The detention of the Lidchan resident became known on September 22. In a police video, he said that he was “registered in the Peramoga Plan” and left “threats” to security forces in a telegram. According to the telegram channel “Detentions, courts in Lida,” the man was arrested for 15 days under an unnamed administrative article.

Convicted for comments on social networks.

Detained for solidarity with political prisoners.

Ekaterina Mendrik is 26 years old. According to information on social networks, she was born in Lida, but moved to Grodno as a child. Ekaterina studied at the University of Warsaw and lived in Poland for a long time.

According to the court schedule, before her arrest in the criminal case, Ekaterina was convicted at least twice under political administrative protocols after crossing the border. It is unknown whether she lived abroad.

Mendrik was detained after the January raid on supporters of political prisoners, as she sent parcels and made transfers to political prisoners in pretrial detention. According to human rights activists, the detention occurred a little later, as the girl was abroad at the time of the raid - she was detained upon her return to Belarus.

In a pro-government video, Ivan says that he was detained for “unfriendly” comments regarding government officials and police officers on Youtube and Telegram. According to the security forces, he was also registered in the Peramoga plan.

He was detained for comments about Russian military . A resident of Volkovysk . A "repentant video " was published on pro-government Telegram channels in which the man says that he was detained for insulting Russian military personnel who "serve in Ukraine " on Telegram , insulting the head of the regional executive committee and the Grodno military commissar.

It is not known when the man was detained, but the last time he was online on his VKontakte page was on December 29, 2022, although he had previously visited there regularly.

It is known that in 2015 the man lived in Poland. And in 2019 and 2021 he wrote that he lived in Germany, was engaged in artificial intelligence and worked for the German company EDEKA GmbH/WITRON. His main messengers were linked to a German number, and his mailbox was on a German domain, that is, he lived in Germany permanently.

According to CyberPartizan, Novogrodsky has not officially worked in Belarus since 2011 and has three children from different women.

As Nasha Niva writes, Alexey is interested in philosophy and participated in thematic conferences - for example, in April 2021, he gave a report "Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence" at the scientific conference "Philosophy and Challenges of Modernity", which was organized by the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

The press service said in a statement that the man convicted in March-April 2022 posted messages in an "extremist" chat aimed at "exacerbating tensions in society and destabilizing the situation in the Republic of Belarus." He also wrote "negative messages and comments that discredit the Republic of Belarus" and insult officials and Lukashenko.

German partially admitted his guilt in court.

On December 18 , 2024, the Bobruisk District Court and Bobruisk will hear Alexey's case "on transfer to a different type of correctional facility and change of regime conditions."

Originally from Vitebsk , studied in Gomel, but recently lived in Grodno. An engineer by profession, he recently worked as a system administrator at Whitebird. Judging by social networks, he lived in Warsaw.

The man is also a radio amateur. Member of the Belarusian Federation of Radio Amateurs and Radio Athletes.

The consideration of the case began in January 2024, the last meeting was held on March 29, 2024

Yashkin was detained in May 2023 and placed in custody pending trial.

According to the case materials , the man posted comments containing slander and insults against Lukashenko, called for the seizure of state power and a violent change in the constitutional system in the country.

In addition, in August 2020, the man twice made donations in support of the detainees.

The man was detained after 2021. Botvich was charged with two counts: "espionage" and "intelligence activity." The man in question is a 59-year-old man who, although not a Belarusian citizen, grew up and lived in Belarus. He is Sergei Ivanovich Botvich, the owner of companies with a combined turnover of hundreds of thousands of dollars, some of which were registered in the EU.

Sergei has done business in Belarus, Russia, France, and Lithuania (and holds citizenship in these countries )—primarily in tourism and wholesale coal exports from Eastern Europe to the Baltic and Western European countries. During the "fat years," Botvich's companies generated several hundred thousand dollars annually. In 2014, Botvich participated in a project to build a charcoal plant near the Svisloch River. Another major project of his was the purchase of the Bogudenki estate near the Svisloch River for $30,000.

"I was kept in solitary confinement for a year and a half, subjected to 10-hour cross-examinations, and deprived of food and water due to chronic illnesses—diabetes, post-thrombotic syndrome, hypertension, and gout," Botvich describes the conditions in his letter. According to him, Belarusian security forces wanted him to "incriminate himself about alleged espionage activities for Lithuania." He also wrote in the letter that the security services threatened his family, demanding that his wife and child come to Belarus and bring Sergei's work phone.

Former prisoners reported that Botvich works in the open air at the prison, performing low-skilled labor in all weather conditions, sawing boards with a two-handed saw or stripping wires and cables for non-ferrous metal. There is no building in the industrial zone where prisoners can hide or even temporarily warm themselves in the winter—the room where they change clothes is locked until evening.

People who were imprisoned in the same colony as Botvich speak of his poor health.

On January 26, 2024 , the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

On August 13, 2023, he was detained for “distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities.” After this, a criminal case was opened against him. After the arrest, a “repentant” video was published with Artem, where he said that in 2020 he proposed throwing “Molotov cocktails” at police officers and sent instructions for making them to friends.

On February 27, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

Detained for 2020 comments in telegram chats.

On December 22, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

Most likely the sentence involves imprisonment.