Alexander Fomich Shego
The Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Brest Region. Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6, Regime Department. Head of Department, Major. Previously Deputy Head for Regime and Operational Work of the Brest Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7. Moves between Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6 and Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7, probably due to incoming complaints. Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Shego Aleksandr Fomich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Shego Aleksandr personally beat detainees, created unbearable conditions of detention and came up with new rules of conduct in the pre-trial detention facility to put pressure on detainees.
The Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Brest Region. Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6, Regime Department. Head of Department, Major. Previously Deputy Head for Regime and Operational Work of the Brest Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7. Moves between Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6 and Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7, probably due to incoming complaints. Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Shego Aleksandr Fomich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Shego Aleksandr personally beat detainees, created unbearable conditions of detention and came up with new rules of conduct in the pre-trial detention facility to put pressure on detainees.
List of repressed
- Associations
- Detained under 18 years
Maxim was convicted of participating in "mass riots" in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential election that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced. Maxim was a minor at the time of the trial.
He was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
- Associations
- Detained under 18 years
- Students
Ivan was convicted of participating in "mass riots" in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential election that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced. Ivan was a minor at the time of the trial.
He was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Andrei was convicted of participating in "mass riots" in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential election that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.
He was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
- Associations
- Bloggers
- Journalists
- Athletes
Aleksander, a football player for the Krumkachyov club, a journalist for Tribuna.com and the author of the YouTube channel ChestnOK, was detained at home on June 3, 2021. He was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - allegedly for the flag on the window, but after serving his term he was not released and transferred to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case on "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order." In January 2022, Oleksandr was sentenced to imprisonment.
He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Sergei was detained in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Pinsk on the night of August 9-10, 2020 against falsifications in the presidential elections. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
He was released in August 2024 under a pardon.
Oleg was arrested in June 2021 and later convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang songs and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
He was released in September 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Vyacheslav was detained in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against the falsification of the presidential elections that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
According to human rights activists, he was released in November 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Leonid was detained in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Pinsk on the night of August 9-10, 2020 against falsifications in the presidential elections. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
In May 2025, he was released , having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Ilya was arrested in May 2021 in connection with the protests in Pinsk on the night of August 9-10, 2020, and convicted of participating in "mass riots." According to the prosecution, he tried to break a tree and threw an aluminum energy drink can toward the police. Ilya himself admitted that the can could have flown, but none of the police officers confirmed this, and the specific victim was not named.
The attempt to damage the tree was recorded on video, but in court, a Zelenstroy employee explained that the tree was not damaged. Nevertheless, the organization filed a lawsuit for 117 rubles.
Ilya was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Vladislav was arrested in February 2021 and convicted under the article on "inciting hatred and discord". According to the charges, from September 20 to 27, 2020, in the Telegram chat of the Punishers group, he posted 13 messages in which he "spoken negatively" and "called for illegal actions" against police officers, military personnel, civil servants and their family members.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Eduard was arrested in March 2021 and convicted of resisting a police officer during a protest that took place in Baranovichi on August 9, 2020, against the falsification of the presidential elections. According to the charges, during the protest he "interfered with the lawful activities of the Internal Troops. He took a piece of paving slab and threw it towards the soldiers who were dispersing the protest, hitting one of them in the shoulder. The resulting bodily injury did not result in a short-term health disorder."
He was released in 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Lyudmila was convicted of insulting Lukashenko and arrested right in the courtroom. According to the prosecution, on August 12, 2020, she posted a long message with expressions addressed to Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte from her husband's account. At the trial, the woman explained that she published it for herself and did not realize that the post was available to other users. According to her, the page usually posted photos of animals, and this message was published publicly by mistake.
Lyudmila was released on March 9, 2022, as part of a pardon.
- Associations
- Entrepreneurs
- Parents of minors
Petr, an entrepreneur and TV repairman, was first arrested in April 2021 in a criminal case brought under the article on slander. The reason was a repost he made on August 23, 2020 on his page on the social network VKontakte - the publication contained an image and a comment from another author regarding an employee of the Baranovichi District Department of Internal Affairs. Petr was subsequently convicted and sentenced to restriction of freedom in an open-type correctional facility, as well as to pay a fine.
In January 2023, he was released on the basis of the amnesty law of December 7, 2021. Later that year, he was again brought to administrative responsibility under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - for "dissemination, production, storage or transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity."
At the end of April 2024, it became known that Pyotr had been arrested again - on suspicion of participating in mass protests that took place in August 2020. A few months later, he was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to imprisonment by a court decision.
- Associations
- Activists
- Twice political prisoners
Alexander is an activist and former coordinator of the organizing committee for the creation of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. In 2019, he was detained on the eve of the parliamentary elections and convicted of renting an apartment for a Russian citizen at the request of his girlfriend, who later illegally crossed the border into Poland. Alexander believes the case was fabricated, as he did not know about his intentions. He spent just over a year in prison and was released under an amnesty in late August 2020.
However, already in March 2021, Alexander was detained again and convicted for "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" as part of a criminal case opened after a protest on September 13, 2020 in Brest. During the protest, people sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
He was released in March 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
- Associations
- Detained under 18 years
- Students
Eduard was taken into custody in the courtroom as part of a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest against the falsification of the presidential elections. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots". According to the case materials, the total damage amounted to about 24 thousand Belarusian rubles.
He was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
