Artem Viktorovich Veselov

Detained for an act of terrorism.

A military pensioner, worked in Baranovichi at an aircraft repair plant.

According to investigators, on September 26, 2020, he made Molotov cocktails and moved them to a parking lot near one of the military units, where he used them.

Evgeniy was detained on January 18, 2022, when he arrived in Grodno from Germany.

Evgeny told security forces on camera that in 2020 he was a member of chat rooms deemed extremist, where he called for mass riots, the killing of police officers, and the burning of Tabakerok stores.

Evgeniy has family in Denmark.

Kirill was arrested on June 23, 2021, in connection with a criminal investigation into an incident at a Russian Navy communications facility near Vileika. In the ONT propaganda film, he was portrayed as the initial perpetrator of the bombing mission, but he refused to participate and merely assisted in reconnaissance of the area.

Lukashenko mentioned Kirill among the people who allegedly wanted to flee to Ukraine and Lithuania, but were detained by the KGB Alpha group.

It is also known that Kirill was previously detained and severely beaten on August 9, 2020.

In December 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony and a large fine.

On August 4, 2023, a trial was held to consider changing the sentence. The outcome is unknown .

At the end of autumn 2025, Kirill was transferred to another colony.

In May 2026, it became known that Kirill was being pressured while in prison. In the Mogilev penal colony , he was periodically placed in a punishment cell , later being placed in a cell-type facility. The political prisoner was convicted under Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the penal colony administration ). Under the new sentence, he will serve his sentence in Maximum Security Penal Colony No. 9 in Gorki.

Kirill is in very poor health . He has a number of serious illnesses , and at the end of 2025, the political prisoner suffered a minor stroke. According to Viasna, Kirill has not seen his family for three years.

Convicted of creating and administering the telegram channel «Polotsk Novopolotsk Country For Life Chat Freedom to Sergei Tikhanovsky».

On March 17, 2022, the State Security Committee announced the detention of a group of Belarusians who were preparing a terrorist attack against Russian troops in the Mozyr district.

According to the investigation, Sergei Pleshkun and Yuri Selvich planned to destroy military equipment of the Russian Federation when it was moved through the territory of the Mozyr district. To do this, they prepared molotov cocktails.

From the «BT» video, it follows that the Mozyrans were closely watched: they showed footage from a hidden camera in the garage, where men discuss their plans. On the record, they talk about the prospects of railway damage.

The trial was held behind closed doors.

Detained for an action on the railway.

During the offensive of Russian armies on Kiev from the Gomel region, he, along with Denis Dikun and Oleg Molchanov, burned a cabinet with electronic equipment on the railway in order to slow down the delivery of Russian military equipment to the Ukrainian border. As a result, traffic lights and switches on one of the sections of the Zhlobin – Kalinkovichi railway, which then continues to Ukraine, were put into a faulty condition.

Dmitry worked in the Vyshkomontazhny management of the Republican Unitary Enterprise «PO Belorusneft» as a vyshkomontazhnik-electrician.

Evgeny was charged under 9 articles of the Criminal Code. The reason for this was comments in Telegram and sending 0.28 and 0.004 bitcoins to the administrators of Telegram channels.

In addition, from December 2019 to January 2020, he purchased particularly dangerous psychotropic substances, and on the territory of Russia (in the Bryansk region) he bought a firearm – a Makarov pistol (PM) and at least 46 cartridges for it.

The trial lasted from February 14 to June 2, almost four months.

Yevgeny partially admitted his guilt, explained that he did not agree with the results of the presidential elections in Belarus, and that is why he decided to act actively.

Artyom enjoys music and fishing, and is inquisitive and knowledgeable in many areas. He studies English and German. He always knew he would live in Germany. He loves Rammstein, has been listening to them since childhood, and knows many of their songs by heart.

He was arrested on January 12, 2022, in connection with a criminal case involving "group actions grossly violating public order," "illegal collection and dissemination of personal data," "calls for actions aimed at harming national security," and "aiding and abetting incitement of hatred."

In September 2022, he was found guilty of participating in two post-election protests in Minsk in 2020, as well as developing a barcode scanning program to boycott companies that supported the regime.

Alexander was arrested on August 22, 2021, near the dacha of V.O. Sukalo, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan, for attempted arson. He was possibly provoked by a KGB officer.

In March 2022, Alexander was convicted of "act of terrorism" and sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony.

Sergei, an investigative journalist and editor of the Belarusian portal "Ezhednevnik" (ej.by), was detained on December 8, 2021, following a search and questioning by the Investigative Committee. He was charged with bribery and placed in pretrial detention. Sergei had previously been detained in connection with this case, from March 25 to April 4, 2020.

It later became known that he was also accused of “inciting hatred and discord” and “abuse of power or official authority.”

Human rights organizations assessed the prosecution as evidence of a political motive in the criminal prosecution of the journalist, aimed at forcing him to stop or change the nature of his activities in disseminating information about corruption.

According to Sergei's colleagues, the prosecution was motivated by his high-profile investigative journalism, primarily concerning large-scale corruption in the healthcare sector. Based on these findings, he reported on unprecedented kickbacks in the supply of expensive equipment, the purchase of an unregistered vaccine that was claimed to have been tested on Belarusian children, and the falsification of data on the spread of COVID-19 in Belarus. Moreover, according to him, these actions took place with the approval of the Ministry of Health.

In October 2023, Sergei was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

Vitaly was arrested in November 2021 on charges of "participation in mass riots" and placed in pretrial detention.

In March 2022, he was found guilty of participating in a post-election protest that took place in August 2020 near the Riga shopping center in Minsk. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he allegedly "along with other aggressive participants, committed vandalism and property destruction: breaking up paving slabs, erecting barricades, and blocking traffic."

Nikita was arrested in November 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "act of terrorism"—according to investigators, for disabling railway tracks. He was later finally charged under two articles of the Criminal Code: "participation in actions grossly violating public order" and "preparation for participation in mass riots."

In July 2022, Nikita was found guilty of calling for active participation in and participating in the 2020 post-election protests in Minsk, including incidents of "road blocking." Investigators also alleged that he received telescopic batons and stun guns from the administrators of the "OGSB" Telegram chat, as well as instructions for sabotaging the railway.

Sergei was detained in August 2021 as part of a criminal case initiated under the article “act of terrorism”.

According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, "an organized criminal group operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries with the goal of committing extremist crimes. The group included radical individuals, including former and current military personnel, law enforcement officers, athletes and businessmen, who sought to seize power illegally." The case involves charges of attempted arson of the home of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and "organizing mass riots."

Sergei was convicted under several criminal articles to a long term of imprisonment and a fine, and he was also stripped of his military rank.

Alexey, a former military man, communications specialist and director of a company that installs and repairs electric garage doors and barriers, was arrested in September 2021 in a criminal case related to the "Busly Lyatsyats" initiative. Some of the charges involved damaging the car of a Borisov district judge. As a result, he was sentenced to a long prison term and a fine.

Alexey has three children, one of whom is a minor.