Alexey Valerievich Lazarenko

cultural activist. Andrei was detained on January 12 and the court of the Moscow district of Minsk sentenced him to 10 days of administrative arrest. After “days” he was no longer released. He was kept in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Minsk.

It is known from the case that Primak was registered in the “Victory Plan”.

Convicted by the Zavodskoy District Court of Minsk under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code. On March 22, 2023, the case was heard by Judge Zhanna Khvoynitskaya. Sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional institution, term unknown .

In early May 2024, it became known that Denis was involved in a new case. The trial was scheduled for May 7. In addition to him, Andrei Stabulyanets and Alexander Sharabaiko were involved in the case. Depending on the role of each, they were charged under Article 368 (insulting Lukashenko), Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official), and Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist group). In the Vitebsk Regional Court, Yevgeny Burunov considered the case in a closed court session from May 7 to June 5, 2024. As a result, Denis was sentenced to imprisonment in a general regime colony. The exact term is unknown (about five years ).

Dmytro Gudik was convicted under Article 358-1 of the Criminal Code (intelligence activity). He is a citizen of Ukraine. Mikhail Stolyarchuk, his uncle, was also tried in this criminal case. According to the prosecution, they had been collecting data on military equipment and facilities in Belarus on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine since 2018. Igor Dirko was also detained with them, but instead of being prosecuted, he was expelled from Belarus.

According to a channel associated with the security forces, he was detained for allegedly writing comments in the chat bot of the Belarus Brain channel. It is reported that he is in a pre-trial detention center and a criminal case has been opened against him under two articles (which are not specified).

Ivantsov is 38 years old. He studied at the Faculty of Biology of the Belarusian State University, worked as a junior researcher at the Academy of Sciences, and as a medical representative of several pharmaceutical companies. Since 2013, he has been the head of the De Viz company, which is engaged in marketing research in pharmacology. Five years ago, Ivantsov entered the graduate school of the Belarusian State Pedagogical University and worked at the university. Ivantsov is also a practicing psychologist, supporter and popularizer of the enneagram.

Dmitry Mostovoy is 45 years old. He is a resident of Sinitsa, studied at the Polytechnic College in Minsk, a professional programmer.

He was detained during the protests in October 2020, and he was sentenced to several days of arrest.

Dmitry was detained in early March 2023. In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch» on the ONT TV channel, released on April 05, 2023. It was said in the film that Dmitry offered the telegram chat «Belarusian Gayun» to merge information about the airfield in Machulishchi: he set up an online broadcast from a computer, where all the actions taking place at the airfield for two weeks without a break were shown.

Now the man is in jail on charges of treason to the state and facilitation extremist activities.

He is a political scientist, a specialist in security issues. Head of the analytical center Belarus Security Blog; member of the Board of the organization «Pravyi Alliance» (2010-2011).

According to Andrey's friend, he was detained in Moscow a few days ago. Now he has been taken to Minsk and is now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee («SIZO KGB»).

On June 20, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.

A former MTS employee from Brest was detained in early November 2022. In the “repentance” video, he said that in 2020-2021 he worked at MTS and had access to data. According to the security officials, Andrey handed over the data of several officials and prosecutors to the Black Book of Belarus.

A former cellmate of Tsypak told human rights activists that Andrei was severely beaten during his arrest.

Andrei's case was considered behind closed doors, so the outcome of the trial is unknown to human rights activists.

Andrei Tsypak previously played in the Brest handball club named after Meshkov. From 2020 to 2021, he worked at MTS - and at that time, according to the security forces, he transferred the data of several prosecutors and government officials to the protest initiative.

Ruslan, a businessman, founder and former director of the Spanish visa center in Minsk, was detained by KGB officers in October 2021 at the airport when he was about to leave Belarus. The detention took place as part of a criminal case initiated for political reasons.

In March 2023, Ruslan was convicted of bribery and treason. The court sentenced him to a long prison term and a large fine.

In August 2024, the conditions of his detention were tightened - Ruslan was transferred to prison regime. Since then, he has been prohibited from receiving parcels, visits and other forms of support. He is allowed to use no more than one basic unit per month for personal needs.

He was detained for comments on social networks. Maxim is waiting for his 10-year-old son at home.

Detained for comments on social networks.

Nikolai is accused of "financing terrorist activity", under which article he faces 8 to 12 years in prison.

The man's last known place of employment was the Republican Olympic Training Center for Track and Field.

On June 6, 2023, he was sentenced under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code to 6 years in a maximum security penal colony and a large fine. Other details of the case are unknown.

On September 1, 2023, Judge V. Cherevach was to consider the appeal of the political prisoner in the Supreme Court. At the moment, the first sentence has entered into force, so when the second was issued, Vasilevich was already considered to have a previous conviction.

On September 12, 2023, another trial of Nikolai took place in the Pervomaisky District Court. This time, he was accused of "financing terrorist activity." In total, Svetlana Cherepovich sentenced him to 9 years and 6 months in a maximum security penal colony for his donations, as well as a fine of 600 basic units. The pro-government film states that he made at least 54 donations to solidarity funds.

On November 14, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

Pro-government channels posted “repentant videos”, where Pavel says that he worked in the Department of Security until 2018, was detained for transferring personal data of Department employees to the Black Book of Belarus. The data was taken from the telephone directory book.

At home he left a wife and small children (1 year and 3 years).

Aleksey was sentenced on trumped-up charges of possession of training ammunition. In August 2020, the man wrote a letter of resignation from the army and was fired in November.

He was detained on the case of the export of documents of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus. During the investigation, they were taken to a separate criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 295 of the Criminal Code, because during a search, explosives were allegedly found in the apartment.

Minsk City Court in August 2022 issued a verdict. Alexei was also stripped of his military rank and fined: 500 basic units. The trial was held behind closed doors.

For a long time, Artur worked in power grids — first as an engineer at «Belenergosetproject», and then at «Minskenergo». Arthur is accused of transferring personal data of more than 500 officials by telegram channel.