Sergey Aleksandrovich Katzer

Artem has worked in this field all his life - as a veterinarian, a teacher at the Smilovichi State Agricultural College, a technician. He is also the director of the veterinary company "Khimvet".

Artem's last comments date back to May 2024, after which he disappeared from social media. That's probably when he was detained .

It seems that the issue is in his social media posts and comments on Telegram - the accounts are called by his own name, and the Telegram account is linked to Artem's own phone.

Most likely he was detained in the summer of 2023. In 2013, Arthur opened his own business store, Grandbazaare, where he sold branded clothing and shoes. The VKontakte group has more than 40 thousand subscribers. In recent years, his company has specialized in the Under Armor brand. And from 2023, he translated the pages of his business into the Belarusian language.

Arthur is interested in sports, but especially football, and even previously played in amateur leagues as a goalkeeper. He uses football players and other athletes as photos for his avatars on social networks.

In addition to imprisonment, Arthur was awarded a fine of 700 basic units.

On 02/09/2024 an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

Deputy commander of the 310th artillery group for ideological work of the 120th separate guards mechanized brigade of the guard, lieutenant colonel. He is accused of “treason against the state by a person subject to military status” and “inciting other social discord.”

The circumstances of the case are unknown.

On July 5 and 17, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

Taxi driver. According to pro-government Telegram channels, he was detained for comments on social networks. In the "repentant video," the Belarusian says that he participated in protests in 2020, and from 2020 to mid-2023, he left more than 2,000 "offensive comments" in chats about Lukashenko, prosecutors, and police officers. Sergei's arm was broken during his arrest. He was kept in a punishment cell on Okrestina for 35 days with a broken arm. The head of the temporary detention facility expressed a biased attitude specifically towards him, through a "commentary" article.

An appeal against the verdict will be heard on August 2, 2024.

Detained for participating in protests in 2020.

On August 13, 2024, Judge Olga Lavrinovich will make a decision in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Minsk "On replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open-type correctional facility."

As of October 2025, it became known that Viktor was again detained and was being held in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1.

Igor is a journalist for Belsat TV. He previously worked for the newspaper "Belorusy i Rynok" (Belarusians and the Market) and the Belarusian service of Radio Svaboda. He has also published in Russian and Ukrainian publications. Together with his wife, journalist Ekaterina Andreyeva, he wrote the book "Belarusian Donbass," a study of the role of Belarusians in the war in eastern Ukraine.

He was first detained on July 16, 2021, during mass searches of independent journalists on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order or actively participating in them." His apartment was searched, his equipment and books were seized, and he was then placed in a temporary detention facility. He was released on July 26.

In October 2024, news of his second arrest broke . Pro-government Telegram channels published a photo of Igor in handcuffs and a video in which he claimed he was being persecuted for an interview with media outlets deemed "extremist" in Belarus. Shortly before his arrest, in a commentary to the Dozhd TV channel, he noted that "Putin has embarked on a course of sharp escalation and is leading the country toward all-out war," while Lukashenko, in his opinion, "most likely does not want to participate directly in it, but is forced to face increasing pressure from the Kremlin."

In February 2025, Igor was charged with "discrediting Belarus" and "assisting extremist activity." The trial began on February 21 in Minsk. The court rejected the request for an independent expert examination, and on September 5 of that year, the journalist was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.