Pursuit is over

Detained under Articles 130, 368 and 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On June 10, 2022, Judge Elena Shilk found Ivan guilty and sentenced him to four years in a general regime penal colony. He was soon transferred from Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 to Mogilev Prison No. 4.

At the end of September, Ivan was transferred to Correctional Colony No. 2 in Bobruisk, and soon to Brest Pretrial Detention Center No. 7. In December, the political prisoner was transferred to Pretrial Detention Center No. 1.

On December 29, 2022, the Frunzensky District Court of Minsk considered Ivan's case under Article 391 of the Criminal Code (insulting a judge). It is known that the trial was conducted by Judge Anna Skuratovich and the final sentence of the political prisoner has not changed.

In January 2023, Ivan was transferred from Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 to Mogilev Prison No. 4.

At the beginning of 2024 he was transferred to Penal Colony No. 1.

On January 30, 2025, he served his full sentence and was released.

Engineer, climber. He was detained on November 11 , repeatedly punished with administrative arrest. Anatoly became popular because of his statement in a video distributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which he spoke of his love for white and red colors.

Press Secretary of A1.

He was detained on December 10 and sentenced to administrative arrest. But after his release, he was not released. It is known that the security forces beat him.

After his arrest, a "repentant video" appeared on pro-government channels, in which he said that he allegedly passed on information related to his professional activities to third parties. But the company then stated that Nikolai did not have access to client data.

The trial was held behind closed doors, but it became known that Nikolai Bredelev was found not guilty under Part 2 of Article 424 of the Criminal Code (Abuse of power or official authority) and acquitted due to lack of evidence of participation in the commission of a crime.

He was accused of providing funds to deliberately support the activities of an extremist group (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) — blogger Anton Motolko. Motolko denied this accusation.

He is expected to be released in June 2025.

Pavel was detained in March 2021 by traffic police on a highway near Minsk, where leaflets, newspapers and stickers were found in his car; according to the Investigative Committee, "thousands of copies of protest newspapers, stickers with unregistered symbols and leaflets" were seized. The department immediately after his detention called him the administrator of the Telegram channel "Atolino".

At the time of his arrest, Pavel worked for a private advertising company and was previously a video engineer on television. In 2020, he was part of the campaign staff of presidential candidate Viktor Babariko.

In January 2022, he was convicted on charges of producing and distributing protest printed materials (leaflets, stickers, newspapers), as well as participating in Sunday marches that took place in Minsk in August–September 2020.

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

A homeless man from Minsk was detained for "repeated violations of mass events." It is known about Kutas that he was thrown 10 times for a "day" under Art. 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (unauthorized picketing) in 2021. The protocols for him were drawn up for posters, on which the flag of the BSSR was usually painted and requests for help were written. But one day he was detained for a BCHB poster with the text: "Vyarnitsa me zyatsinstvo, youth me yarnitsa, and the first kahanna. Forget the lager and long live the People's Republic of Belarus." It is known that Kutas spent 22 years in prison.

Released 09/21/2022

He was detained on December 8, 2021 as part of a criminal case about group actions grossly violating public order

According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.

Convicted on charges of insulting the president.

According to human rights activists, in December 2022, he fully served his sentence.

detained in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.

On October 19, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

Resident of Mogilev. According to the prosecution, in June 2020, Valentin Lobachev posted a picture in one of the banned Telegram channels with an inscription that, according to the state prosecution, was offensive to Alexander Lukashenko.

On February 17, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

Maxim Mychko, Yana Milevskaya and Alexander Bend, accused in this case, while in Gomel on August 29, 2021, in a state of intoxication near the house on the street. The Soviet flag was torn down, which Mychko then threw on the pavement. Their identities were established using CCTV cameras.

In December 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

Maxim Mychko, Yana Milevskaya and Alexander Bend, accused in this case, while in Gomel on August 29, 2021, in a state of intoxication near the house on the street. The Soviet flag was torn down, which Mychko then threw on the pavement. Their identities were established using CCTV cameras.

On June 23, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

He was detained based on information from the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime on 16.12.2021 at his home at night.

Convicted for participating in protests on August 9, 2020. Identified from video footage.

In 2023, apparently, he was transferred to prison regime.

Released in the summer of 2025 upon completion of his sentence.

Employee of the Laguna factory in Baranovichi.

Convicted on December 20, 2021 for a comment with obscene language in the telegram channel “Baranovichi 97%” addressed to A.G. Lukashenko, which was written on September 17, 2020.

03/04/2024 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Resident of Minsk. A criminal case was opened against Pavel for the fact that during a gathering of citizens in Gorodishche on September 18, 2020, when the police began to detain an elderly man, he obstructed the arrest, as a result of which he hit a policeman.

Released in January 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Independent journalist, works for Radio Svaboda.

He was detained on November 25, sentenced to 10 days, but was not released on December 5 and was again given 10 days. But Andrei was not released on December 15 either, receiving another 10 days of arrest. A criminal case was opened against him.

On February 12, 2025, with the help of the US State Department, Elena Movshuk, journalist Andrei Kuznechik and a US citizen whose name has not yet been disclosed were released. They were pardoned by Lukashenko.

Details of the release were revealed to CNN by Chris Smith, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe.

"It was a special operation: we crossed the Belarusian border, met with authorities in Minsk, who handed over three detainees to us. We picked them up and took them through Lithuania." According to Smith, it was a "unilateral gesture" by the Belarusian authorities, seeking to improve relations with the United States.

"Lukashenko received nothing in return," he noted.