Aliaksandr Mikalayevich Kuzniatsou (Dzhasau)
The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Senior Operations Officer.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kuznetsov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions.
Kuznetsov exerted psychological pressure on political prisoners Ekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Kanevskaya, Anna Vishnyak, and Miya Mitkevich. He staged provocations, invented reasons for unfounded penalties, and ordered the beating of prisoners.
According to information from former political prisoner Natalia Khershe, Kuznetsov did not allow a container for personal hygiene in the PKT.
Under Kuznetsov's orders, other prisoners spoiled food intended for political prisoners and deprived them of sleep. Political prisoners were forced to work constantly and clean the premises, were doused with water at night, had their belongings damaged, had used hygiene products thrown into their beds, and had needles planted in their bodies. Kuznetsov was also involved in compiling reports of violations against political prisoners on trumped-up grounds, claiming that such people were a burden to this world and forcing them to commit suicide.
The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Senior Operations Officer.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kuznetsov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions.
Kuznetsov exerted psychological pressure on political prisoners Ekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Kanevskaya, Anna Vishnyak, and Miya Mitkevich. He staged provocations, invented reasons for unfounded penalties, and ordered the beating of prisoners.
According to information from former political prisoner Natalia Khershe, Kuznetsov did not allow a container for personal hygiene in the PKT.
Under Kuznetsov's orders, other prisoners spoiled food intended for political prisoners and deprived them of sleep. Political prisoners were forced to work constantly and clean the premises, were doused with water at night, had their belongings damaged, had used hygiene products thrown into their beds, and had needles planted in their bodies. Kuznetsov was also involved in compiling reports of violations against political prisoners on trumped-up grounds, claiming that such people were a burden to this world and forcing them to commit suicide.
List of repressed
On February 21, 2024, in the Pinsk District Court, Judge Andrey Bychilo considered the case under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of information products included in the republican list of extremist materials, as well as the production, publication, storage or transportation for the purpose of distributing such information products).
Apparently, a criminal case was opened after this.
He was detained along with his entire family (husband, daughter, son) on suspicion of “treason.” The daughter was apparently later released. The details of the case are unknown.
She worked as a nurse at Gomel City Clinical Hospital No. 3. Larisa Prokhorova is a completely non-public person. She was born in 1975 in Grabovka, where she lived all her life.
Participants in a closed process have non-disclosure agreements. It is known from an unofficial source that the criminal case concerns photographing various objects on the territory of Belarus, and the persons involved in the case were monitored by special services for some time before their arrest.
The Prokhorov family lived for a long time in the village of Grabovka, Gomel region. At the time of their arrest, they lived in the village of Uza, Gomel region, where they moved two years ago.
Detained for donations. Was awarded in the category “Best Graduate of BSU” 2018. After her arrest, Ksenia was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center for several months, after which she was transferred to pre-trial detention center-1, and then to pre-trial detention center-3.
On June 4, 2024, Ksenia’s appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
5 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
- Associations
- Retirees
Anna was detained on December 18, 2023. After 72 hours, she was still not released. Preliminary, a criminal case was opened for insulting Lukashenko and a police officer.
Anna was convicted of several criminal charges, including "assistance to extremist activity," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine. The trial was held behind closed doors.
Presumably, one of the reasons for the persecution was her solidarity with political prisoners - it is known that Anna actively wrote letters to them.
It is known that the woman was detained when she returned from Italy.
On March 15, 2024, the appeal was considered.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
It is known that Nadezhda has two adult daughters and a minor son with disabilities.
On March 1, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
- Associations
- Activists
Presumably detained for giving interviews to foreign media.
It is known that Ekaterina was detained at the beginning of summer in one nightie, in which she was kept in a pre-trial detention center until the first transfer from her relatives.
At the beginning of April 2024, Belsat sources gave the editors a letter from Ekaterina. On a piece of toilet paper, she described her horrific detention and subsequent imprisonment:
“I fell from the second floor of the bed, my head on a wooden bench. They took a picture, but they haven’t reported the result for more than a month.”
“They put it on the flag, beat the whole office. They said it was for my interviews, the channel and for my fiery appeals.”
On July 16, 2024, the appeal was considered.
6.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
- Associations
- Civil servants
- Parents of minors
A former accountant at the Vavilov Minsk Electrotechnical Plant . The trial began on May 19 and was held behind closed doors, so little information about the charges is available. It is known that Anna was fired from her job following the "People's Ultimatum" in 2020, and then sued the company for wrongful dismissal.
Anna's youngest child was only 5 months old when she was detained.
Alexandra was detained in February 2023 upon her return to Belarus and sentenced the next day under an administrative article for "dissemination of extremist materials" to 10 days. However, after serving her arrest, she was never released, as a criminal case was opened against her for two interviews with an information resource recognized as an "extremist group."
She was accused of assisting “extremist groups,” administering Telegram channels, inciting hatred, insulting the authorities, disseminating personal data, and slandering Lukashenko, and was convicted under eight criminal articles.
In March 2024, the court heard the appeal and reduced her sentence by one year, without the right to further appeal.
In May 2024, it became known that she was convicted again for “insulting a government official and a judge.”
In the spring of 2025, information appeared that another criminal case had been opened against Alexandra, and she was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
- Associations
- Factory workers
Leader of the independent trade union "Naftan". Olga worked at the enterprise for 16 years and was fired because of her position. In May 2022, she was released after 75 days of arrest for speaking out against the war. She was detained on November 1 again under an administrative article.
Two days later, the court found her guilty of distributing "extremist materials" and sentenced her to 15 days in jail. On November 11, she was sentenced again to 15 days for "an unauthorized picket." The reason for the trial was a drawing with the inscription "No to war," which Olga published on social networks.
On November 21, 2022, it became known that Olga was transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Vitebsk.
In less than 2022, Britikova spent 105 days behind bars, including 75 days in a row in the spring.
She was detained again under Article 361, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus in August 2023. However, in the spring of 2024, Olga was tried under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 11, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On August 20, 2024, another closed trial was held over Olga. Yevgeny Burunov was appointed to hear her case in the Vitebsk Regional Court. The political prisoner is accused under three articles. It is known that Olga was given another three years in prison.
On December 20, 2024, the Supreme Court heard the appeal. Chairman of the Judicial Collegium Vladimir Davydov. According to the decision of the Collegium, Olga's second sentence was reduced by 1 year. Thus, the total term of the political prisoner is 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. As of early January 2025, Olga was in a pre-trial detention center, but at the end of the month she was transferred to Correctional Colony No. 4.
Detained in the case of A. Hralovich. The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.
Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which Television News Agency showed in 2021.
It is known that Olga was held for a year in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, where she was on a hunger strike. Then she was transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.
«She was completely gray-haired. She was on hunger strike for a long time — she was even fed through the veins on her hands, so they were swollen like forest driftwood».
She began serving her sentence.
7,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Lawyers
She worked as a lawyer for almost 18 years.
She defended political prisoners Ales Pushkin, Artem Boyarsky, Igor Banzer, Andrei Avsievich, Andrei Sokolovsky in court.
On February 23, 2022, she was expelled from the Grodno Regional Bar Association for systematic violations of the law. Yulia left Belarus, but returned to the country at the end of August 2022.
She was detained on the same day together with Pavel Mozheyko
Pavel and Yulia pleaded not guilty. Yurgilevich stated at the trial that she was being held in "bestial conditions" and was not allowed to get acquainted with the case.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Advocate. She was detained in early June 2022, two days after her 40th birthday, for leaking data to Telegram channels. The security forces came to detain a woman with machine guns and bulletproof vests - they climbed into the windows and broke down the door.
In March 2023, it became known that she was also charged under Art. 203-1 of the Criminal Code (Illegal actions regarding information about private life) and Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code. According to investigators, she allegedly organized an unauthorized mass event when she held a consultation near Akrestsina in August 2020.
At home she left an elderly father and a 19-year-old son who has been suffering from Crohn's disease since the age of 16.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
- Associations
- Civil servants
A 2nd class lawyer, a former employee of the prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district of Minsk, worked for some time as an HR specialist in an IT company. Natalia is accused of leaking information to the Black Book of Belarus.
- Associations
Olga, who worked as an art director at the Europa Hotel in Minsk, was detained in August 2021 as part of a criminal case initiated under the article “act of terrorism” and convicted in June 2023 under several criminal articles.
According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group" allegedly preparing extremist crimes operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries. It included radical military personnel, security officials, athletes and businessmen who sought to seize power illegally. This case is related to the attempted arson of the house of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and the "organization of mass riots."
