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Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~1197 days
Hometown: Asipovichy
Date of birth: 04.05.1995
Was in: IUOT-43IUOT-43, 212003, Mogilev, ul. Cheliuskentsev, 76A
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Convicted of participating in protest actions 2020.

Trial outcome 16.03.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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In custody: 321 day
Was in: IK-8IK-8, 211388, Vitebsk region, Orsha, ul. Lenina, 195A
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Was convicted for three tik tok videos.
Released on August 23, 2022 after the expiration of the sentence.

Trial outcome 17.03.2022:

1 year in prison.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~599 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 18.03.1980
Was in: IK-2IK №2, 213800, Bobruysk, ul. Sikorskogo, 1
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The case was sparked by Ivan’s posts on the social network VKontakte.

11.07.2023 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

In 2025, he was removed from the KGB's "terrorist list".

Trial outcome 20.05.2022
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: 546 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 24.06.1983
Was in: IK-3IK №3
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Convicted for participating in several protests.

Maxim has elderly parents and a sick grandmother, whom he helped.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2023.

Trial outcome:

1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 706 days
Was in: IUOT-55IUOT-55, ul. Socyalisticheskaya, 7, Minsk, 220021
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According to human rights activists, he will be released in November 2023.

Trial outcome:

2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 722 days
Hometown: Podluzhe
Date of birth: 10.08.1975
Was in: IUOT-29IUOT-29, Volkovysk, Rokossovskogo, 118, 230415
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Released in April 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome:

2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 548 days
folder Categories of cases: The case of the «hay bales»
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 16.11.1970
Was in: IUOT-21IUOT-21, 247783, Gomel region, Mozyr, b-r Yunosti, 24
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Convicted of painting hay bales.

On 05/04/2023, he was released under an amnesty, a week before the expiration date.

Trial outcome:

1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.

Andrey Nikolaevich Belyavsky
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Former political prisoners
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In custody: 617 days
Hometown: Babruysk
Date of birth: 14.05.1977
Was in: IK-3IK №3
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An entrepreneur and TikTok blogger from Bobruisk was detained on April 28, 2022 right at his place of work - in his store.

It is known that Andrei is involved in a criminal case for insulting the president. After the arrest, GUBOPiK seized Belyavsky’s TikTok account. Before his arrest, Belyavsky’s account had more than 100,000 followers.

01/05/2024 released after expiration of sentence.

Trial outcome 22.08.2022:

2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 1135 days
folder Categories of cases: Return to Belarus
Hometown: Hrodna
Date of birth: 26.08.1993
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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Political activist from Grodno. In 2017, he spoke at protests related to the introduction of a “tax on parasitism.” In 2019, I set up a tent in front of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Grodno to solve the housing problem. In 2020, Lavrentiev, together with activist Nikolai Solyanik, held a number of actions for the introduction of quarantine in Belarus during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the 2020 presidential elections, the activist was serving administrative arrest for an action during a meeting with Sergei Tikhanovsky. In the fall of 2020, he left Belarus for Poland.

In Poland, he volunteered to help two Belarusian refugees. but in December 2020, Alexander disappeared from a rented apartment in Bialystok. The girls' money also disappeared with him. He did not answer calls or messages. He told his friend that he calmly crossed the Polish-Belarusian border, but his case in Belarus was closed due to lack of evidence. In 2021, Alexander purchased a food truck and worked in one of the microdistricts of Grodno. I was selling shawarma. On May 2, 2022, Lavrentyev was detained right at his workplace. Detained by the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Grodno Region. After the arrest, the Grodno resident said on camera that he was detained for distributing extremist information online and insulting the president. He admitted guilt.

On October 11, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.

In the summer of 2024, it became known that Grodno resident Alexander Lavrentiev was given another 1 year of imprisonment in a colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution”).

Trial outcome 02.08.2022
3 years 4 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 11.10.2022
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Former political prisoners
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In custody: 867 days
Hometown: Babruysk
Date of birth: 14.07.1981
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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The case was initiated for distributing and mailing leaflets calling for counting the votes of voters honestly.

Trial outcome 12.09.2022:

3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 364 days
Hometown: Pokolyubichi
Date of birth: 09.11.1995
Was in: SIZO-3SIZO-3, Gomel, ul. Knizhnaya 1A, 246144
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Sergey Oleinikov and Yan Alekseychikov were found guilty of climbing on the roofs of administrative buildings, tearing off state flags from the local House of Culture and the village executive committee, and then throwing them on the ground. At this time they were in a state of alcoholic intoxication. The side of the state prosecution was sure that the men acted in a group of persons by prior agreement and wanted to "express a disdainful attitude towards the state symbols of the Republic of Belarus."

According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2023.

Trial outcome 15.04.2022:

1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 364 days
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 07.06.1995
Was in: SIZO-3SIZO-3, Gomel, ul. Knizhnaya 1A, 246144
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Alekseychikov and Sergey Aleinikov were found guilty of climbing on the roofs of administrative buildings on the night of January 16-17, 2022 in the agro-town of Pokolyubichi, Gomel region, tore off state flags from the local House of Culture and the village executive committee, and then threw them on the ground. At this time they were in a state of alcoholic intoxication. The side of the state prosecution was sure that the men acted in a group of persons by prior agreement and wanted to "express a disdainful attitude towards the state symbols of the Republic of Belarus."

According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2023.

Trial outcome 15.04.2022:

1 year imprisonment in a penal colony

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 751 day
folder Categories of cases: Zeltser's case
Hometown: Izha
Date of birth: 24.11.1991
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Initially, the 30-year-old man was charged only with being one of the first, on September 29, 2021, to leave a comment on Instagram under a post about the news about the deceased employee of the state security committee: «the earth will be concrete for the bandit».

Soon a video appeared on the channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where the Rogach was forced to confess to the crime and repent on camera. The man was also forced to say that he is a supporter of the LGBT community and promises to improve.

During the investigation, which lasted 11 months, the investigators brought additional charges of insulting a representative of the authorities and organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order.

The trial was held behind closed doors.

According to human rights activists, he was released on October 20, 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome 11.08.2022:

2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 456 days
Date of birth: 01.05.1995
Was in: IUOT-36IUOT-36, 220039, Minsk, ul. Korotkevicha, 14
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In the summer of 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

Trial outcome:

1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 385 days
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 02.10.1995
Was in: SIZO-3SIZO-3, Gomel, ul. Knizhnaya 1A, 246144
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He was convicted for posting a public comment in one of the social network groups, which contained "an insult expressed in indecent form against the president."

According to estimates of human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

Trial outcome:

1 year 1 month of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

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