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Vladimir was detained in July 2023 by GUBOPiK officers and placed in pretrial detention on fabricated administrative charges.
In August of that year, he was charged with "insulting a government official," "insulting Lukashenko," and "illegal actions regarding information about private life and personal data," after which Vladimir was transferred to a pretrial detention center.
In January 2024, Vladimir was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony and a large fine.
He was released in April 2026, having fully served his sentence.
The first episode happened back in January 2022. Then Baranovsky made a transfer from his bank account to an unnamed structure recognized as an extremist formation. The exact amount of the transfer is unknown. In April 2022, Baranovsky made a donation to the account of the Kalinovsky Regiment. It is known that the man was detained in the spring of 2023 by employees of the Office of the State Security Committee for the Mogilev region.
Oleg was accused of desecration of state symbols (flag).
On January 16, 2024, Oleg’s appeal was heard.
According to human rights activists, he was released on June 3, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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Konstantin was detained in October 2023 upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had most recently lived. He was accused of posting “numerous offensive comments” and later convicted of several online statements that, according to the prosecution, contained negative assessments of Lukashenko. Konstantin was also charged with insulting government officials, but this was dropped due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
In September 2024, he was released under a pardon.
On 09.02.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2024.
Oleg was arrested on March 21, 2023, for administrative offenses and charged with the production, distribution, or possession of extremist materials under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses .
Previously, Oleg was involved in social and cultural activities, at one time he led the Gomel “toloka”, and as a writer he published a lot in magazines and newspapers.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
On March 5, 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.
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Worked at BMZ in Zhlobin. Detained for comments on social media.
At the time of his arrest, Dmitry's youngest child was six months old, and his two older children were under six years old. His wife was on maternity leave.
On June 26, 2024, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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Okolotovich was arrested at a cemetery. The KGB lured the priest there by tricking him into coming there: they called him and told him a woman had died and needed a Catholic burial. At the cemetery, they handcuffed him and placed a black helmet on his head so no one could see who was being taken or where.
Two of his parishioners, a man and a woman, were detained at the same time. They spent approximately nine months in a KGB pretrial detention center, where they were forced to testify about the priest's alleged meetings with foreign diplomats.
The charges ultimately brought against Okolotovich were outlandish: he allegedly somehow diverted Russian and Belarusian air force planes in the opposite direction, thereby causing damage not only to Belarus but also to the Russian Aerospace Forces—a total of one million euros. Upon his arrest, approximately 270,000 euros were confiscated from him—mostly parish funds, not the priest's personal funds. This sum was applied toward the debt, and the remainder was claimed as additional payment in Belarusian rubles.
By that time, Okolotovich had already been under surveillance for a long time, but nothing could be found that would prove espionage.
The priest became the latest religious figure to be affected by the regime's repression of religious communities in Belarus.
Genrikh suffered a heart attack and recently underwent stomach surgery for cancer. He requires medical supervision and constant medication. He slept on the floor and boards for over a year; he was only moved to a bunk bed before the trial.
The KGB offered Okolotovych a special condition for his release. Upon returning to Volozhin, he was to invite the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to a church service and discreetly hand him a flash drive containing incriminating evidence—a pretext to discredit the diplomat. At the time, Ante Jozic was the nuncio to Belarus. This provocation against the nuncio wasn't the only one: according to Krylov, the KGB proposed similar scenarios against other foreign diplomats, primarily Polish ones. The priest refused everything: "I am completely imbued with God's ecclesiastical purposes. And what you demand of me is a crime. I cannot betray God."
In November 2025, he was pardoned after a visit to Belarus by the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, as a special envoy of Pope Leo XIV.
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Due to the closed nature of the trial, the merits of the case are currently unknown. It is only known that Vladimir Romanovsky was detained in Babruisk during a "pigeon feeding" event on May 9, 2020. Riot police detained approximately 15 people in the city at the time.
According to the verdict , Romanovsky has now been found guilty of publicly insulting Lukashenko on social media and has been sentenced to imprisonment.
On February 6, 2024, the court reviewed the appeal and the verdict came into force.
He was expected to be released on November 6, 2025.
On January 23, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
He was released in early summer 2024, having served his full sentence.
On January 26, 2024 , the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
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).
Vladimir has been interested in urban development and architecture for about 20 years. He has created a unique database with thousands of photographs of various buildings in Belarus and abroad—photobuildings.com.
In a video shown on ONT, Vladimir claims to have registered in the Peramoga chat room, and in November 2022, Alexander Azarov allegedly contacted him.
On February 27, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in December 2025.