Pursuit is over

Citizen of Ukraine.

According to the charges, on the morning of May 4, near the Transit store, Bondarenko made obscene remarks about Lukashenko in the presence of other citizens. According to the prosecution, the Ukrainian's motive was "supporting ideas of social intolerance toward representatives of the Belarusian government and openly expressing hostility toward them ." One of the people present contacted the police and even provided a photograph of the car in which Yuri Bondarenko and his friend left. The following day, the Ukrainian was arrested on charges of insulting Lukashenko .

According to calculations , he was supposed to be released in the fall of 2025. Possibly deported .

After his arrest , he was immediately placed in pre-trial detention center No. 4 in Mogilev.

At the trial, Bondarenko admitted his guilt.

Worked as a psychologist.

On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).

Convicted for participating in a 2020 protest.

On August 27, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists , he will be released in the spring of 2025.

Director of the Sakavitsa enterprise - the former Molodechno factory of art products. Sergei Sobolevsky was charged with Parts 1 and 3 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code (“Takeover of property using official powers”), which, according to him, the investigators invented on their knees, is already in court. There was no evidence. Sergei Sobolevsky said in an interview that already when he was behind bars, KGB officers came to him three times with an offer to testify against Sergei Tikhanovsky (they also came to the Vitebsk colony) - and immediately go home. The convict categorically refused.

Director of TV commercials and music videos, journalist, political activist and co-founder of the Free Association of Athletes SOS BY, recognized in Belarus as an "extremist group." Andrei Gnet was arrested by Serbian authorities upon landing at Belgrade airport in October 2023, based on an Interpol warrant issued at the request of Belarus. Andrei has been in custody since his arrest; on June 6, 2024, he was transferred to house arrest without permission to leave his apartment.

On October 31, 2024, he was released from house arrest.

Former military man, reserve lieutenant colonel.

He was found guilty of "defaming Alexander Lukashenko." The charge stemmed from a comment on a news story on a Telegram channel that contained harsh criticism of the politician.

The reason for the detention of Leonid and his wife Antonina was the protests of 2020. Pro-government channels reported that Antonina was left with the child - probably under recognizance not to leave. She is also likely to receive a non-custodial sentence.

On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).

Father Andrzej Yukhnevich, rector of the Roman Catholic parish in Shumilino, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, has not been released from the Vitebsk temporary detention center after serving 45 days in custody . The only parcels he is allowed to receive are medications. Father Andrzej Yukhnevich has already been convicted at least four times in a row. The first three were likely given the maximum sentence of 15 days, and the fourth time, the court sentenced him to a further 10-day arrest.

Thus, the rector in Shumilino spent more than 45 days behind bars —the longest of any Roman Catholic or Greek Catholic priest sentenced to administrative arrest in Belarus. Afterward, a criminal case was opened against the priest.

As Christian Vizier learned in the fall of 2024, pressure continues to be placed on the priest in Pretrial Detention Center No. 2, where he has been held since his arrest on May 8, 2024. The priest was only allowed to shower for the first time after two months of detention. He faces charges related to crimes against the sexual integrity of minors.

On April 30, 2025, Father Andrzej was sentenced in Shumilino. Believers learned that the priest had been sentenced to 13 years in prison , although the prosecution had sought a 15-year sentence. The trial was presided over by Inna Grabovskaya, chairperson of the Shumilino District Court.

According to information received by believers, the priest's case concerns events that occurred approximately 10 years ago. During one of his outings to Shumilino for services, he walked down the street with a local girl—an incident that the KGB turned into a criminal case. The girl never filed any complaints against the priest with the curia, either then or later. Under duress, she testified about harassment and attempted rape; she did not appear in court "for safety reasons." The verdict was handed down solely on the basis of her statement—without witnesses, attesting witnesses, or medical reports. As believers learned, the priest completely denied the accusations and attempted to prove his innocence, appearing in good spirits in court. Meanwhile, the diocese allegedly never received any complaints against Father Andrzej.

Because of his assigned "low status" in the colony, he was effectively isolated.

In November 2025, he was pardoned after a visit to Belarus by Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, as a special envoy of Pope Leo XIV.

The pro-government Telegram channel "Pulse Grodno" published a video of a Minsk resident detained for participating in protests.

In the video , the Belarusian says he participated in protests in 2020 and made negative comments about the authorities and police. He also said he had a negative attitude toward Russian military personnel.

According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in early 2026 .

In addition to imprisonment, Tatyana was awarded a fine of 2,000 rubles.

A 38-year-old illustrator. She quit her job at a large IT company. Her colleagues, shocked, tried to talk her out of it, so she decided to go home. She claimed she already had a certificate from the KGB showing she'd paid back the full amount of her 2020 donation. She was tired of being homeless. She was detained at the border.
According to the prosecution's case, as presented by the Prosecutor General's Office press service, between 2021 and 2022, Natalia Levaya transferred cash and cryptocurrency totaling at least four thousand four hundred rubles (equivalent to approximately 1,275 euros today) to bank accounts and virtual wallets "used by members of extremist groups, including armed groups such as the Kalinovsky Regiment." Furthermore, she was fined 1,000 basic units—almost the same amount she donated to initiatives and foundations. This is the penalty requested by the prosecution in court. The trial was held behind closed doors.

She was pardoned on February 19, 2026, in her 8th month of pregnancy.

In December 2023, at least eight people were detained in Baranovichi. They are accused of participating in protests in 2020.

He was released in January 2026 .

Irina was arrested in 2020-21 and convicted of a traffic accident. She was sentenced to five years in a penal colony, but her sentence was soon changed for violations and she was transferred to a penal colony in Gomel. While in the colony, a new criminal case was opened against her for participating in protests in Baranovichi and she was transferred to a pretrial detention center in Baranovichi. She spent nine months there. According to the court's verdict, her first sentence completely absorbed her second (for protesting). She was released in July 2025.

Irina Pogadaeva is 54 years old. She is from Brest. She worked at a local library as a bibliographer. Judging by social networks, she has two children.

At the end of January 2024, when she was tried for “distributing extremist materials.” At the end of 2023, she was included in the “extremist formation.” This was recognized by the Facebook community “Letters of Solidarity Belarus 2020”, in which people exchanged letters from political prisoners and also discussed helping prisoners.

In total, the case involves more than thirty episodes in which a woman sent money to political prisoners in pre-trial detention centers in Minsk, Gomel and other cities of the country. Basically, we are talking about amounts of 4-5 rubles. In just less than a year and a half (from August 2021 to December 2022), Irina sent 188 rubles. This was enough to initiate a criminal case and arrest in May 2024.