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.
Real estate agent, blogger, author of the blog "Belarus in the Window". His TikTok account has 431 followers. In the videos, he humorously comments on Belarusian news.
During the arrest, he was beaten. Alexander had already been beaten before — he came under a wave of torture on the «Okrestina» during the August protests. According to the medical report published on his page, he was severely beaten during detention at the exit of the house on August 12, 2020 and on the «Okrestina», there were 47 bruises on his body.
The man submitted an application to the investigative committee with a demand to conduct a check on the fact of his beating. The initiation of a criminal case, of course, was refused.
During the consideration of the criminal case, it was established that from August to October 2020, Alexander repeatedly took part in blocking the movement of vehicles in Minsk, posted videos insulting Lukashenka on social networks.
Trial outcome 18.05.2023:
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under a reinforced regime.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
A military pensioner, worked in Baranovichi at an aircraft repair plant.
According to investigators, on September 26, 2020, he made Molotov cocktails and moved them to a parking lot near one of the military units, where he used them.
Trial outcome 20.06.2022
12 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Trial outcome 23.03.2023
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Alexander, the manager of the York store, was arrested in November 2021 in a criminal case related to the "Busly Lyatsyats" initiative. Some of the charges concerned damaging the car of a Borisov district judge. As a result, he was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
In September 2023, it became known that Alexander was transferred to a hospital for convicts in the village of Kolyadichi near Minsk for a planned operation. At the end of October of the same year, he was transferred back to the penal colony.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Lighting designer at the Belarusian theater «Lyalka».
Trial outcome 11.11.2022:
12 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On December 9, a video appeared in the telegram channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus with him, where Konstantin was forced to say that he participated in the development of the «Black Map of Belarus».
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
According to the case file, in January 2021 Gavrilov purchased and provided aerosol cans with paint to two acquaintances — Tatiana and Oleg Birulya. After that, Tatiana and Oleg, from January to February 2021, applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure facilities in Soligorsk, carrying out their damage.
In August 2021, Gavrilov, through agreements, including for material remuneration, involved another acquaintance, Sergei Pasyuk, in engaging in extremist activities.
Then, from August to December 2021, the defendants distributed leaflets and other printed materials on the territory of Soligorsk. The examination of the contents of the «Honest Newspaper», with copies of which the coach was detained, testified that Gavrilov was allegedly involved in inciting racial, national, religious or other social enmity or discord committed by a group of persons.
Trial outcome 12.12.2022
10 years of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
Appeal 07.04.2023
unknown.
Regime change trial date unknown
unknown years of prison regime.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Dmitry was a witness in the case of Brest political prisoners, bloggers Sergei Petrukhin and Alexander Kabanov, who were sentenced to three years in a general regime penal colony in April of this year. As the activist told Brest human rights defenders, a criminal case was opened against him for refusing to answer questions from the judge who was considering the case of Petrukhin and Kabanov, since he did not show the judge's service ID.
Released on 26.02.2022.
On December 11, 16 and 17, 2024, new hearings of Dmitry's case took place in the Leninsky District Court of Brest under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Dmitry was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment.
Trial outcome 21.09.2021
3 months of arrest.
Trial outcome 17.12.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 21.02.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Alexander is an activist in the anarchist movement. He first studied construction at college, then majored in engineering geodesy at the Belarusian National Technical University. He has been passionate about sports since his youth: he played for a DIY league football team, practiced Muay Thai, and went mountaineering.
Early in the morning of July 29, 2021, Alexander was detained as he left his home. He was beaten and searched during his arrest, then taken to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, where he was tortured and beaten.
He was initially accused of actively participating in a protest on August 23, 2020, in Minsk, although by that time he had already served an administrative arrest for this incident.
In January 2022, Alexander and other defendants in the criminal case were charged with additional membership in an extremist group for subscribing to the Telegram channel "Pramen." At the time of their arrest, the channel "Pramen" had not yet been added to the list of extremist groups; this was only added in November 2021.
In April 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony. In April 2025, Alexander's detention regime was tightened, and he was transferred to a prison regime. It was later revealed that the court had sentenced him to an additional six months in a general regime penal colony for "malicious disobedience to the administration's demands."
6 months of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Vladislav, a blogger, poet and writer, was arrested in April 2021 and convicted a year later of fraud for promising more than 100 people in 2015–2016 to take part in Belarus’s first reality shows, but failing to keep his promise. He was also found guilty of participating in three Marches in 2020 and organizing protests via Instagram. Vladislav himself only admitted to participating in the rallies.
In October 2022, he was convicted again for insulting Lukashenko in a poem included in an appeal against the verdict.
On the portal of the online store Ridero.ru, under the pseudonym Vlad Savinn, his books are presented - the story "Ambidextrous" and the collection of poems "Poetry Through", available in printed and electronic form.
22.12.2022
In the recent past, he crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and is actively fond of sports. He loves art, especially the artist Vincent van Gogh. He is a person with a strong character, empathic, ready to help not only relatives, but also strangers.
8 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Alexander 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."
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Alexander was detained after a protest against the results of the presidential elections, which took place on August 11, 2020 in Brest. At this protest, Gennady Shutov was shot in the back of the head, which Alexander witnessed. He was later convicted of resisting and attempting to kill Captain Roman Gavrilov, who shot the protester, and Warrant Officer Arseniy Galitsyn, who acted as victims.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Sergei was detained in a criminal case initiated due to protests and clashes between Pinsk residents and security forces on the night of August 9-10, 2020. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots." The victims in the case were 109 police officers and officials, who, in addition to imprisonment, demanded about 530 thousand rubles in compensation from the accused.
Trial outcome 30.04.2021
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, approximately 38000 rubles of compensation.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Artur was detained in a criminal case initiated due to protests and clashes between Pinsk residents and security forces on the night of August 9-10, 2020. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots." The victims in the case were 109 police officers and officials, who, in addition to imprisonment, demanded about 530 thousand rubles in compensation from the accused.
Trial outcome 30.04.2021
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, approximately 38000 rubles of compensation.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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