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On June 9, it became known that prisoner Artem Anishchuk was subjected to physical and psychological abuse by the colony administration from the moment he arrived at the penal colony. The torture is related to the fact that the head of the colony is a friend of Alexander Geyts, the victim in the case for which the prisoner was tried. This is not the first case of ill-treatment in IK-15. Earlier, another prisoner reported that he was beaten by Lazarenko. Another prisoner reported that the colony could send a person to a punishment cell for statistics.
On June 9, it became known that prisoner Artem Anishchuk was subjected to physical and psychological abuse by the colony administration from the moment he arrived at the penal colony. The torture is related to the fact that the head of the colony is a friend of Alexander Geyts, the victim in the case for which the prisoner was tried. This is not the first case of ill-treatment in IK-15. Earlier, another prisoner reported that he was beaten by Lazarenko. Another prisoner reported that the colony could send a person to a punishment cell for statistics.
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According to pro-government Telegram channels, Vladislav and three other men "have administered four TikTok accounts and two Telegram channels since 2020. These resources published information aimed at organizing and preparing mass unrest and resisting law enforcement officers, with the aim of undermining the independence, territorial integrity, and constitutional order of the Republic of Belarus. The men united in a Telegram group, which was designated an extremist group in early November." They allegedly "were tasked with finding perpetrators to destroy infrastructure and organize attacks on law enforcement."
In January 2025, he was pardoned. Afterwards, he left the country.
In 2026, Vladislav was charged with new criminal offenses under Articles 364 and 361-4, Part 2, for media interviews. Police officers searched his mother's home and confiscated his equipment for inspection. Furthermore, the Belarusian special services sent messages to his personal account inviting him to return to Belarus.
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Vyacheslav was convicted in June 2023 for comments in Telegram chats calling for participation in protests that took place in Grodno in 2020. His participation is "proven" by his mobile phone billing records. He developed diabetes in prison.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
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An employee of the Ministry of Education. Sergei is accused of leaking data to the ChKB.
They detained Sergei brutally: several security forces suddenly ran into him when the man calmly walked around the courtyard of a high-rise building.
According to the pro-government telegram channels, a resident of Minsk wrote comments in "extremist" chats calling for forceful resistance to the internal affairs bodies (the security forces showed several messages dated August 2020), and also sent personal data to the bot of the Black Book of Belarus channel several judges.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
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Inhabitant of Baranovichi. He was arrested in mid-February 2023. The man was charged with the fact that on March 8, 2021 on Instagram he posted a story “with the face of Lukashenka in a female guise” and the text: “Since March 8, daragia of a woman. The cruelest health and only pleasant ashchushcheny. For this, they were accused of publicly insulting Lukashenka.
Vladislav was also accused of sending videos and texts to the Nexta editorial chatbot several times (for example, videos of Russian military aircraft and trains with Russian military). This was qualified as "other assistance to extremist activity" under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code.
On September 05, 2023, the appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
On August 4, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
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Dmitry, a Ukrainian citizen, was arrested and convicted of "undercover activity." His uncle, Mikhail Stolyarchuk, was also charged in the same criminal case. According to the prosecution, they had been collecting data on military equipment and facilities in Belarus since 2018 on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Design engineer.
On July 18, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
Alexander was charged with writing two comments under publications on the Belarus of the Brain Telegram channel. One message was written on February 24, 2022, under the news that Russian troops were entering Ukraine from Belarus. The second message, with which (according to the prosecution) Alexander publicly insulted A. Lukashenko, was published on April 7, 2022 (when Ukraine and Russia were negotiating a ceasefire) under the news with a quote from Lukashenko that "there can be no negotiations without the participation of Belarus."
On June 16, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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On 27.06.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
It is known that Alexey has a 5-year-old daughter.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in March 2025.
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He was arrested in Minsk in October 2022, in his office, for allegedly posting comments in the chatbot of the "Belarus of the Brain" channel. He is reportedly in pretrial detention and facing two criminal charges.
Ivantsov is 38 years old. He studied at the Faculty of Biology at BSU, worked as a junior research fellow at the Academy of Sciences, and served as a medical representative for several pharmaceutical companies. Since 2013, he has headed the company "De Visu," which conducts marketing research in the pharmaceutical industry. Five years ago, Ivantsov entered graduate school at BGPU and worked at the university. Ivantsov is also a practicing psychologist and a proponent and popularizer of the Enneagram.
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
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A taxi driver who was harshly detained by riot police at the end of January 2023 while he was waiting for an order near the bus station. Friends had been waiting for Roman since “days”, as they knew that he was detained for old likes on the Odnoklassniki social network. But then it turned out that the man was detained under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 21, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to estimates, the human rights defender will be released at the end of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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IT specialist.
Ruslan is charged with financing extremist activities.
According to his Linkedin profile, Ruslan has been working for Netcracker for the last 6 years.
Previously, for some time he was a volunteer for the Protection of Birds of the Fatherland.
On June 23, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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Orthodontist. Detained for comments.
There is a hearing disability. There is a need for replacement hearing aids.
On June 20, 2023, an appeal hearing was held.