Entrepreneur, director of one of the advertising firms.
Trial outcome date unknown
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
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Ivan most recently worked at Belenergo, installing and configuring fiber-optic networks and communications.
Ivan is a very active Telegram commentator. From 2019 to 2025, he left over 50,000 messages in open chats. Most of them weren't political—he discussed technology, offering professional advice on editing and network tools. However, he also wrote about politics. Kochanov supported the movement for free elections and condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, he criticized Europe and NATO, spoke out against the persecution of Belarusians abroad and repression, as well as against repression for the Russian language in Ukraine, as this "incites aggression."
He was convicted for comments in a chat room deemed extremist and for participating in protests in 2020. Two weeks after being transferred to the penal colony, Ivan was charged with a second criminal case related to the "Belarusian Gayun" chat room and was again transferred to a pretrial detention facility.
Trial outcome date unknown
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Final verdict by partial addition:
5 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Evgeny is a native of Orsha, winner of the Republican Olympiad in history and a graduate of the history department of BSU.
In 2020, he was detained and beaten during protests in Minsk, after which he was fined for "participating in an unauthorized event."
In 2022, he was charged again under the same article: a court in Orsha sentenced him to 15 days in jail for a photo on social media featuring a Pahonia T-shirt.
In 2025, a new criminal case was opened against him, allegedly for filming the movements of military equipment, and he was sentenced to restricted freedom with direction.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Alexander was arrested at the end of February 2025 and in June of that year was found guilty of “assisting extremist activity.”
Trial outcome 06.06.2025
5 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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Trial outcome date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Artur was detained in May 2025, allegedly in connection with a criminal case related to the OSINT monitoring project "Belarusian Gayun".
In July 2025, Arthur's second daughter was born.
Trial outcome date unknown
4 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Oleg Loiko, an evangelical pastor from the Khoyniki district, is accused of transmitting information about the movement of Russian military equipment through Belarus.
48-year-old Oleg Loiko is the pastor of an evangelical Christian church in the village of Nebytov in the Khoyniki District. Last December, he was arrested for 10 days for "spreading extremism."
The pastor spent many years rehabilitating people with drug addictions through the "Return" mission. Thanks to his work, hundreds of people have returned to normal lives. He has previously received numerous glowing reviews from state media.
A church minister was sentenced to three and a half years in a maximum-security prison for providing information about the movement of Russian military equipment to the Belarusian Gayun monitoring project. The trial was held behind closed doors.
Pastor Oleg does not admit that he committed crimes and considers his conscience clear before God.
He was re-sentenced in October 2025.
In the colony, Oleg's heart condition worsened, and intervertebral hernias made it very difficult for him to walk.
Trial outcome 20.08.2025
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal date unknown
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On June 24, 2024, a hearing was held under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus: Distribution, production, storage, and transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity. As of April 2025, he was in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1. The prosecution may be politically motivated.
Trial outcome 22.10.2025
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Maxim Kurovsky intentionally posted messages in one of the Telegram chats against President Lukashenko, obscene in form and offensive in content.
The examination found that the messages contained a negative assessment of the head of state, humiliated his honor and dignity. Moreover, he used the Belarusian language at the same time. Former investigator of the Pruzhansky district department of the Investigative Committee. He retired from the service in 2020.
12/06/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
Trial outcome 17.10.2022
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.12.2022
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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