Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik

Dmitry was arrested and found guilty in September 2021 of "inciting racial, national, religious, or other social hatred" against police officers for an Instagram video calling for "beating up riot police" outside the Mogilev prison. His arrest was publicized in state propaganda, where he was labeled a football fan, something he denies.

He was released in September 2025, having fully served his sentence.

After his release, Dmitry was placed on one-year preventive supervision; police officers pressured him and staged provocations. Fearing re-arrest, he left Belarus.

Igor was convicted in September 2021 for comments left under a photo of a government official and a law enforcement officer on the social network Odnoklassniki and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

According to human rights activists, he was released in August 2023, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Dmitry was a witness in the case of Brest political prisoners and bloggers Sergei Petrukhin and Alexander Kabanov, who were sentenced to three years in prison in April 2021. As he told Brest human rights activists, the criminal case against him was opened for refusing to answer questions from the judge hearing Petrukhin and Kabanov's case because the judge had failed to present his official identification. In September 2021, Dmitry was found guilty of "refusing or evading testimony" and sentenced to arrest.

He was released in February 2022, having fully served his sentence.

In December 2024, Dmitry was convicted again under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

According to human rights defenders, he was released in the spring of 2026 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Vyacheslav was found guilty of damaging property and causing damage in the amount of 10 rubles 34 kopecks for painting a school fence, a kiosk, poles, and trees in a village on the outskirts of Mogilev with white and red stripes in December 2020.

He was released in the fall of 2021, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Vitaly was convicted for a comment about Lukashenko that investigators deemed offensive and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

In June 2022, he was placed in solitary confinement twice: the first time for five days, after which he was transferred to a new unit for "malicious violators of the regime," and a few days later for ten days. In July of that year, it was announced that Vitaly had been transferred to a cell-type facility for five months, remaining on his sentence.

He was released in December 2022, having fully served his sentence.

After his release, Vitaly left Belarus because, when he was registered, the first deputy head of the Kobrin District Department of Internal Affairs, Alexander Kosyak, threatened that next time he would be imprisoned with his wife.

In November 2023, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Vitaly for “assisting extremist activity.”

Alexey was arrested in March 2021 and convicted of "inciting hatred or discord" for comments on the social network VKontakte, with a prison sentence.

In September 2021, as part of a pardon, he was transferred from the penal colony to an open-type correctional facility. On November 29, 2021, it was announced that Alexei had left the penal colony and left Belarus.

In late October 2022, reports emerged of his detention in Russia. It was reported that Alexei first went to Smolensk to visit relatives, then moved to Belgorod, and after the war began, he moved to Voronezh, where he was detained by police. On October 26, 2022, he was transferred to Belarus, and in November, a court hearing was held, resulting in Alexei's detention being changed from an open correctional facility to a penal colony.

In August 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.

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."

Released in the spring of 2026 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Nikolai is a Belarusian politician and the chairman of the United Civil Party. He was first convicted on August 6, 2021, and sentenced to three months in jail for "disclosing investigative data in the Coordination Council case." He served his full sentence and was released on March 26, 2022.

On July 27, 2022, Nikolai was again detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." According to the investigation, as stated by Sergei Pasko, head of the Investigative Committee's Minsk office, in August 2020, he allegedly took an active part in mass unrest in Minsk, directing the radical crowd, giving instructions to protesters, and calling for roadblocks and obstructing the movement of vehicles.

In November 2022, Nikolai was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment.

In July 2024, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Sergei, a retired lieutenant colonel who participated in a video message from reserve officers to the Belarusian military, was detained on July 16, 2021, following a search of his home.

According to Lukashenko's decree, he was stripped of his military rank after 28 years of impeccable service in the Armed Forces. Sergei is a father of four children, two of whom are minors.

In December 2021, he was charged with organizing, preparing, or actively participating in actions that grossly violate public order. Sergei was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to a correctional facility and released in the courtroom.

He was convicted again in October 2025. The appellate court sent the case back for retrial. Ultimately, during the retrial, the case was dismissed due to the statute of limitations, and Sergei was released from the courtroom.

Vyacheslav, an English teacher at Svisloch Secondary School No. 2, was accused of slandering Lukashenko. On August 20, 2020, the leadership of the Svisloch Executive Committee organized a meeting with residents, which Vyacheslav attended. It was the executive committee leadership that accused him of slandering Lukashenko at this meeting.

On June 30, 2021, the court sentenced Vyacheslav to imprisonment, and he was taken into custody in the courtroom.

In December 2022, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Maxim was convicted of participating in "mass riots" in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential election that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced. Maxim was a minor at the time of the trial.

He was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Ivan was convicted of participating in "mass riots" in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential election that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced. Ivan was a minor at the time of the trial.

He was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Andrei was convicted of participating in "mass riots" in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential election that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.

He was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Aleksander, a football player for the Krumkachyov club, a journalist for Tribuna.com and the author of the YouTube channel ChestnOK, was detained at home on June 3, 2021. He was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - allegedly for the flag on the window, but after serving his term he was not released and transferred to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case on "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order." In January 2022, Oleksandr was sentenced to imprisonment.

He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.