Valery Yatsentovych Romanovsky
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Valery Yatsentovych Romanovsky
He handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where he imposed a fine in the total amount of at least 638 rubles.
Convicted journalist Denis Ivashin under Article 365 (interference in the activities of an internal affairs officer) and part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code (treason to the state). The trial took place behind closed doors. Ivashin published investigations on the InformNapalm website and in the Novy Chas newspaper. He told how journalists identified former employees of the Ukrainian special forces “Berkut” who participated in the dispersal of Belarusian protests in the ranks of the Belarusian riot police. Behind bars, the journalist's correspondence is blocked, publications are not given back, and he has also been repeatedly placed in a punishment cell. It is known that Denis refused to write a petition for pardon. In the summer of 2021, the journalist began to have heart problems. Romanovsky sentenced Denis to 13 years and 1 month of imprisonment in a colony under a high security regime. Denis is recognized as a political prisoner.
Convicted Valentin Panasik under Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code - Organizing mass riots, Article 342 of the Criminal Code - Organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them, Article 130 of the Criminal Code - Inciting hostility or discord. Valentin made publications on social networks containing calls for street protests and active resistance if they were suppressed. Romanovsky sentenced the man to 6 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions. Valentin Panasik is recognized as a political prisoner.
Considered complaints against decisions of lower courts in political cases. He always took the side of his colleagues.
He handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where he imposed a fine in the total amount of at least 638 rubles.
Convicted journalist Denis Ivashin under Article 365 (interference in the activities of an internal affairs officer) and part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code (treason to the state). The trial took place behind closed doors. Ivashin published investigations on the InformNapalm website and in the Novy Chas newspaper. He told how journalists identified former employees of the Ukrainian special forces “Berkut” who participated in the dispersal of Belarusian protests in the ranks of the Belarusian riot police. Behind bars, the journalist's correspondence is blocked, publications are not given back, and he has also been repeatedly placed in a punishment cell. It is known that Denis refused to write a petition for pardon. In the summer of 2021, the journalist began to have heart problems. Romanovsky sentenced Denis to 13 years and 1 month of imprisonment in a colony under a high security regime. Denis is recognized as a political prisoner.
Convicted Valentin Panasik under Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code - Organizing mass riots, Article 342 of the Criminal Code - Organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them, Article 130 of the Criminal Code - Inciting hostility or discord. Valentin made publications on social networks containing calls for street protests and active resistance if they were suppressed. Romanovsky sentenced the man to 6 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions. Valentin Panasik is recognized as a political prisoner.
Considered complaints against decisions of lower courts in political cases. He always took the side of his colleagues.
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This is a 38-year-old pilot who, as of 2020, served in the 61st Fighter Aviation Base in Baranovichi. Aldasev graduated from the aviation department of the Military Academy of Belarus. It is unknown whether Aldasev remained in the army after 2020.
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- IT staff
In 2006, he graduated with a master's degree from the Physics Department of Belarusian State University. Before his arrest, he held the position of lead software engineer (a management position) at EPAM. In May 2020, Pavel, along with a team of other IT employees, helped Belarusian teachers set up a distance learning system. Pavel is married and has two children. At the time of his arrest and trial, his wife was pregnant; he had not seen their second child.
Judging by social media, Pavel was involved in social dancing (hustle).
The conviction was based on PayPal donations made between 2020 and 2022 to funds and initiatives such as BYSOL, BY_help, BYPOL, and others. Most of the donations ranged from 10 to 50 euros, with about ten transfers in total. Pavel acknowledged the transfers and explained them as a desire to help people affected by the protests or those who lost their jobs.
The guy is 22 years old, he is originally from Svisloch, a town in the Grodno region. He served in the army, and then moved to live in Grodno. He was involved in sports, for example, he represented his hometown in junior sports all-around.
The guy is currently detained and placed in a pretrial detention center . He is accused of preparing an act of terrorism.
According to the KGB legend, voiced in a pro-government film on ONT, he was supposed to commit sabotage in Grodno.
In the interrogation footage, he says that he was allegedly given the task of blowing up an oil depot using a drone and explosives.
On June 28, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
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Citizen of the Russian Federation. In the pro-government film "Gaspar Didn't Get in Touch" on the ONT TV channel, aired on 05.04.2023, they say that Alexey allegedly took photos of objects in Grodno - the Grodno and Grodno region military registration and enlistment office, military unit 41780, the Auls region oil depot, the Devyatovka region oil depot, the Russian consulate general. And also that a year ago Kulikov escaped conscription, and Russian oppositionist Daniil Krinari (Kovalevsky) helped him get to Grodno. In December, Krinari was detained in Grodno and extradited to Russia.
Alexey's only close relative is his grandmother.
On June 28, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
He was sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment for comments posted online on a social network, the content of which was not specified in the court ruling and which contained criticism of law enforcement officers and insults against the former head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs M. Karpenkov, and A. Lukashenko.
In the absence of signs of public danger of the accused, if he could cause harm to others and/or himself, his placement for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital is considered as arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
As of July 2026, Pavel was in the 26th department of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center "Novinki".
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Denis is a journalist and volunteer editor for the Belarusian version of InformNapalm, a freelance correspondent for Novaga Chas. His investigations touched on the influence of the "Russian world" on Belarus and Syria, construction in Kurapaty, and the transition of former Ukrainian Berkut officers to the Belarusian security forces.
In March 2021, he was detained by KGB officers on charges of "interfering with the activities of the police." Searches were conducted in his apartment, his mother's apartment, and his 95-year-old grandmother's apartment. In 2022, it became known that he was also accused of collaborating with Ukrainian intelligence.
In September 2022, Denis was convicted under articles on "treason" and "interference in the activities of an internal affairs officer", but the latter charge was later replaced with "illegal collection or dissemination of data about personal life".
In June 2023, he was transferred to a maximum security prison without notifying his family or lawyer.
In April 2024, the political prisoner was deprived of parcels, and sending vitamins now requires permission from the prison doctor.
Nikita was arrested for spraying gas in the face of a riot police officer while he was trying to protect a person at a protest. He was beaten, had his hair cut with a knife, and had gas sprayed in his face. In December 2020, he was sentenced to four years of restricted freedom, but the prosecutor later succeeded in increasing the sentence to two and a half years in prison. Nikita did not appear in court, relaying through a friend that arbitrary detentions were planned in the courtroom, threatening him and others.
Was in forced exile.
At the end of March 2025, it became known that Nikita, who had been hiding from the verdict for four years at that time, was detained in Grodno. As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the man was stopped, he did not have documents with him, so he was asked to go to the station. Nikita resisted the police officers and, allegedly, broke the arm of one of them. It is reported that the man was wanted for allegedly "spraying a gas canister in the face of law enforcement officers" in August 2020. A criminal case was opened against him for this. He left the country, but then illegally returned to Belarus.
Since May 13, 2025, there has been no information about the political prisoner. Correspondence and parcels to him are prohibited. There is also no information about Nikita's case and the court date. In addition, it is reported that the investigator in the political prisoner's case is prohibited from informing Nikita's relatives and friends about the status and progress of the case.
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Natalia Zhigar's case is allegedly related to her support for people held in pretrial detention. Before retirement, she worked in the Brest Court office.
Before the trial, the woman was under house arrest.
The case was heard in the Grodno Regional Court. It was initially sent back for revision .
Judge Valery Romanovsky began hearing Natalia's case on August 19, 2024, and hearings continued on September 20, 24, and 30.
On December 27, 2024, the Supreme Court heard Natalia's appeal.
On March 19, 2026, she was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).