Andrey Viktorovich Kovalchuk

Violeta graduated from school in Minsk and entered the Warsaw Academy of Arts. The girl is interested in photography and loves traveling.

Three years ago she got married and changed her last name. The couple became famous because the guy, former football player Fedor Verbitsky, proposed to the girl right at the stadium after the end of the game.

The criminal case was prompted by a video the family made in the summer of 2020 calling for an end to violence. Father Gennady testified in court that one day in the summer of 2020, emotionally affected by the data he saw online about the violence used by the officers against protesters, he decided to record a video addressing the officers calling for a justified use of force. He came up with the text of the speech and then asked his daughter to read it. He also asked his wife to speak out about the elections. On the same day, he expressed his wishes for the future of the country on video, and at the end of his speech, he also showed a heart symbol. After that, he found videos on the Internet and edited the video. On the same day, he sent it to several of his friends and relatives.

Irina worked as a sales specialist and then as a manager at Anastan. She was convicted along with her daughter and husband.

The criminal case was prompted by a video the family made in the summer of 2020 calling for an end to violence. Gennady, the husband, testified in court that one day in the summer of 2020, emotionally affected by the data he saw online about the violence used by the officers against protesters, he decided to record a video addressing the officers with a call for a justified use of force. He came up with the text of the speech and then asked his daughter to read it. He also asked his wife to speak out about the elections. On the same day, he expressed his wishes for the future of the country on video, and at the end of his speech, he also showed a heart symbol. After that, he found videos on the Internet and edited the video. On the same day, he sent it to several of his friends and relatives.

Entrepreneur. His business is JSC Anastan, a large company engaged in the production of polystyrene foam.

The criminal case was prompted by a video the family made in the summer of 2020 calling for an end to violence. Gennady testified in court that one day in the summer of 2020, emotionally affected by the data he saw online about the violence used by the officers against protesters, he decided to record a video addressing the officers calling for a justified use of force. He came up with the text of the speech and then asked his daughter to read it. He also asked his wife to speak out about the elections. On the same day, he expressed his wishes for the future of the country on video, and at the end of his speech, he also showed a heart symbol. After that, he found videos on the Internet and edited the video. On the same day, he sent it to several of his friends and relatives.

A sole proprietor. According to the prosecution, he allegedly left negative comments about Russia after the terrorist attack at Crocus Hall and called for bombing Russian cities.

Andrey was detained in March. Pro-government channels published a "repentant" video of him.

He was detained in February when he returned to Belarus from work. Previously, Alexander worked at a locomotive depot, but after 2020 he was either fired or quit himself - it seems that the dismissal was politically motivated. After that, Kamlenok worked as a truck driver in Western countries. And when he returned home from work, he was detained. He was accused of insulting a government official.

The Verkhnedvinsky District Court recognized Alexander’s page on Odnoklassniki as extremist.

Accused of financing extremist and terrorist activities through donations to a protest initiative (Bysol).

Alexander is originally from Glusk, a small regional center in the Mogilev region. After finishing school, he entered the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, majoring in "Information Systems and Technologies in Logistics". After graduating, he went on to a master's degree.

Alexander worked in the IT field.

Detained for comments on social networks left in 2022 on the Telegram channel "Real Belarus".

51-year-old Sergei Zabelich from Minsk, graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. Judging by Linkedin, he worked as a programmer for at least twenty years. In September 2022, he moved from Nikta Technologies to Intrahealth, an HTP resident operating in the Canadian market.

It is known that Sergei was detained on December 13, 2020, when people went out together for street marches. On this day, another 300 Belarusians were detained.

He is accused of two counts of “financing extremist activities, committed repeatedly” and “financing the activities of an extremist formation.” He faces up to eight years in prison.

On June 7, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

According to the case materials , on February 27, 2022, the man filmed flights of military aircraft and sent the video to the so-called. "extremist formation". Where exactly the video was sent was not specified.

Convicted for donating 9 euros to the Kalinovsky Regiment.

Former head physician of the Belarus sanatoriums in Lithuania and Russia. According to pro-government media, he was detained in the summer of 2021. He is accused of treason against the state for “collecting data about Belarusians who were vacationing in sanatoriums.” In addition, Belarus 1 claims, Kobel collected “information about Lukashenko’s residence in Sochi.”

On November 24, 2023, an appeal took place in his case, and in December he was sent to a colony to serve his sentence.

The lawyer was detained at the end of January and is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 on Volodarsky. After the arrest, the lawyer’s profile was removed from the website of the Republican Bar Association. It later became known that on April 21, 2023, his license was revoked.

On September 8, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

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.

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).