Irina was detained on June 25, 2025. As she was leaving the oncology center, several people in full gear and with batons jumped out at the woman, grabbed her, and placed her in their minibus. This happened in front of the patients and medical staff working at the oncology center.
Irina has a complex form of lymphoma and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. The lack of proper treatment may lead to the patient's death. Irina Levina was detained by punitive forces in connection with some politically motivated case. Most likely, the detention was carried out by GUBOPiK officers. The essence of the charges is still unknown.
She was heldin pretrial detention facility No. 3.As of August 2025, Irina's preventive measure was changed , and she is no longer in a pretrialdetention facility .
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 500 basic values fine.
She holds Russian citizenship. She was detained onApril 23 , 2025, and her home was searched the same day.She was detained inconnection witha criminalcaseinvolving messages posted to the "BelarusianGayun " bot .
Yaroslava is originally from Rogachev. At some point, she moved to Mozyr, likely right after graduating from university.
In recent years, she worked as a teacher in a village school. She taught German at the Moiseevskaya Basic School in the small agricultural town of the same name. She also served as a teacher organizer.
On March 19, 2026, she 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).
Trial outcome 09.09.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Alexey was initiallysentenced toadministrativearrestunder Article19.11of the Code of Administrative Offenses . A criminal case was then opened under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (assistance to extremist activity).
Alexey Kaidash worked in Mozyr as a professional photographer, taking wedding, children's, portrait, portfolio, and menu and catalog photos.
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).
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
She was arrested in early May 2025 in the "Gayun case" for transmitting data to the "Belarusian Gayun" Telegram channel about the movement of military equipment.
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).
Trial outcome 20.11.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Nikita, the younger brother of political prisoner Ihar Losik, was allegedly detained in April 2025 on charges of “assisting extremist activity” for allegedly forwarding several photographs of military equipment moving in 2022 to the Telegram channel “Belaruski Gayun”.
Nikita left Belarus before he began serving his sentence.
In December 2024, he was convicted of distributing, producing, storing, and transporting information products containing calls for or promoting extremist activity. In April 2025, he was arrested again, this time on charges related to political persecution.
Historian, ethnographer .
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).
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
She was detainedin March2025 in connection with a criminal case related to "extremist activity."
On March 19, 2026, she 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).
Trial outcome 22.10.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Maxim was detained after Belarusian security forces gained access to the correspondence of the Gayun monitoring project bot, where people sent information about the movements of Russian troops. Soon, the GUBOPiK Telegram channel showed the first person detained due to the leak - Maxim Nikitenko. He is 42 years old, a native of Mozyr. In recent years, he worked at the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
Former employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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).
Trial outcome 21.11.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 31.01.2025
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 14.05.2025
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Final verdict by partial addition:
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The journalist was detained on May 26, 2022, after a search.
The journalist has currently been charged, but the exact criminal offense against Lyubenchuk is unknown (his lawyer is under a non-disclosure agreement).
In early November 2023, it became known that Ales had been experiencing spinal problems behind bars (a year earlier). "He even has difficulty playing sports, which is what everyone does to escape. This visibly upsets him," a source told Radio Svaboda. Ales worked stripping insulation from wires.
He was releasedin early January 2025.
He was arrested and taken into custody for the second time in September 2025.
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