Pursuit is over

Pavel Yanchuk is from the Kamenets region, but lived in Brest. Before the trial, Pavel was placed in custody.

According to the prosecution , on April 17, 2022, Pavel Yanchuk wrote an offensive comment about A.L. Lukashenko under a publication in the telegram channel “Real Belarus”.

On July 18, the appeal was considered, the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

The man was accused of leaving an offensive comment about Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte, in which he accused the politician of committing a crime against humanity and an act of terrorism. Vadim was held in custody until the trial. He fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.

Vadim has a secondary specialized education and worked as a welder.

According to human rights activists, he was released in September 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

On October 13, 2022, Maxim was convicted under an administrative article for distributing information products containing calls for extremist activity.

In June 2023, he was convicted under a criminal article for assisting extremist activity.

Maxim had encephalitis while still in the pretrial detention center. There were severe complications. He was even paralyzed for some time. He walks with difficulty.

According to the prosecution, on December 31, 2022, Vladimir posted a negative, obscene comment in a closed public chat on the social network VKontakte under a graphic image of Lukashenko. The content of the comment is unknown to human rights activists.

At the court hearing, he fully admitted his guilt and refused to testify. Until the trial, he was under a travel restriction. He was also known to have been repeatedly charged with administrative offences for "disseminating extremist materials."

According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2025, having fully served his sentence.

Detained for comments made in 2020.

Alexey was detained on May 3, 2023, and he was given a 15-day administrative arrest under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code (distribution of “extremist” products). He was never released, as a criminal case was opened against him for organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them, as well as for comments that he left on the Internet back in 2020: “Buy fireworks , checkers, lasers, helmets, shields, respirators and let’s fight back against fascism! We need to decentralize the exits in each district, block the roads, paralyze all traffic. ".

It is known that Alexey was born in Gomel, worked as a freight forwarder, and has a secondary specialized education.

On October 6, 2023, Alexey’s appeal was considered.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Detained for participating in protests in 2020.

In June 2023, it became known that an additional charge had been brought under Article 361-2 for one donation of 10 USD to a fund that was later recognized as extremist by the court.

The court issued a sentence of 3 years' imprisonment, but the appellate court replaced the imprisonment with a restriction of freedom with direction.

He was released at the end of May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Inhabitant of Baranovichi. He was arrested in mid-February 2023. The man was charged with the fact that on March 8, 2021 on Instagram he posted a story “with the face of Lukashenka in a female guise” and the text: “Since March 8, daragia of a woman. The cruelest health and only pleasant ashchushcheny. For this, they were accused of publicly insulting Lukashenka.

Vladislav was also accused of sending videos and texts to the Nexta editorial chatbot several times (for example, videos of Russian military aircraft and trains with Russian military). This was qualified as "other assistance to extremist activity" under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code.

On September 05, 2023, the appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

On 23.04.2024, Dmitry will have a trial to change the regime to a stricter one, he will most likely be sent to a penal colony. According to human rights activists, he will be released in mid-December 2024.

Dmitry was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code for Telegram comments about Alexander Lukashenko, Natalia Kachanova, and Russians. State television aired a video about the verdict. In it, the prosecutor explains the essence of the charge: that the comment about Russians constituted an "ethnic insult."

He was scheduled to be released on November 23 , 2025 .

A native of Ukraine, but has citizenship of the Republic of Belarus. On May 16, 2023, she was convicted for participating in protests.

06/29/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

The political prisoner was accused of filming the movement of Belarusian military equipment on his phone on March 18, 2022 in the Ivatsevichi region and sending the video to one of the telegram groups recognized as “extremist” materials. Andrei fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.

The man’s mobile phone was seized as a “means of committing a crime.”

In early October 2022, unknown individuals hung a white-red-white flag and a Ukrainian flag on a power line support in the Moscow district of the capital. The next day, a post appeared on Anton Motolko's Telegram channel with a photo of the flag and the caption: "Minsk residents congratulate the Ukrainian people on the wonderful news from the Crimean bridge. Crimea is Ukraine! Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine!" During operational and investigative activities, police officers detained six Minsk residents aged 34 to 36 who allegedly did this. Including Igor.

As propagandist Gladkaya writes, since September 2020, Igor Tikach has left more than three thousand messages in one of the extremist yard chats.

Gladkaya also notes that Savelyev and Tikach allegedly wanted to get visas, renewed their passports, and Igor was already waiting for a call from the Polish consulate. Igor has two minor children and a wife who has serious health problems at large.

On September 14, 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in December 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

According to the case materials , in February 2022, she posted a comment that "insulted and humiliated the honor and dignity" of Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov and "was aimed at undermining the authority of government officials." After the publication of a video on the CyberSlivy Telegram channel with a leaked telephone conversation between Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov from September 2020, which became evidence that the police were telling judges what decisions to make for participants in peaceful protests. More than two dozen people left comments under it, including Ekaterina Lev. Ekaterina was detained a year later - on February 1, 2023.

Released on August 20, 2024, after being pardoned.

A research fellow at the Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus and a trade union activist, Kondratyuk is accused of posting negative comments on social media that discredited the government and insulted Alexander Lukashenko.

The activist was detained along with several employees of the Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus on September 5, 2022. He received 13 days of administrative arrest but was never released.

The appeal was heard on July 11, 2023. The verdict entered into force.

He was scheduled to be released on September 3, 2025.