Angela Evgenievna Kostyukevich

Nakanishi Masatoshi is a citizen of Japan. On September 4, 2024, it became known that he was detained in Belarus. He was detained back in July 2024, but the details of his persecution were only revealed now in a BT story. Nakanishi is being held in a KGB pretrial detention center on charges of "intelligence activities" (Article 358-1 of the Criminal Code). The Japanese citizen faces up to seven years in prison in Belarus.

Immediately after the story aired on BT, Tokyo lodged a protest with the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. Japanese Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi stated that the content of the program violated human rights.

A famous basketball referee, he was arrested for creating a basketball chat.

He was detained in January 2024 when he was returning to Belarus. He is currently in pretrial detention. He is accused of "insulting Lukashenko" and "creating an extremist group" under Articles 361-1 and 368 of the Criminal Code.

Syritsa had previously believed that coming to Belarus was not associated with major risks. His wife was also detained at the border (she spent a day in jail). And the chat participants were summoned for questioning.

Alexander Syritsa has been one of the best basketball referees in Belarus for many years. A FIBA referee since 2005. In 2019, together with his colleagues, Syritsa filed a lawsuit against the basketball federation, lost and was blacklisted. He lived in Australia, did business, and often visited Ukraine.

On January 16, the KGB recognized the "Fund of Belarus Friend LTD" as an "extremist organization" - at that time it was reported that Belarusian citizen Alexander Syritsa was related to it.

Former husband of political prisoner Vitalia Bondarenko. He was detained after a short meeting with Vitalia, right at the exit from the colony, and was first placed in a temporary detention center in Gomel, after which he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-3.

On June 4, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

The investigation believes that in January of this year, Ukrainian Likholat contacted the SBU, where he was instructed to blow up railway tracks. He recruited two Grodno residents who had professional skills in mine and explosives for the task. Pukhalsky Boris was detained when he took an explosive device from a hiding place in the Kobrin district and transported it to the Tolochin district.

Sentenced to 25 years in prison, the court ordered Boris to serve the first five years of his sentence in prison.

A Ukrainian who has lived in Belarus since 2013. In 2012-2013, Ivan served in the intelligence units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, BelTA reports. The investigation believes that in January of this year, Likholat contacted the SBU, where he was instructed to blow up railway tracks. He recruited two Grodno residents who had professional skills in mine and explosives for the task. Pukhalsky was detained when he took an explosive device from a hiding place in the Kobrin district and transported it to the Tolochin district. Likholat and Borodich were detained in Grodno.

Sentenced to 20 years in prison, with the court ordering Ivan to serve the first three years of his sentence in prison.

The investigation believes that in January 2023, Ivan Likholat contacted the SBU, where he was instructed to blow up railway tracks. He recruited two Grodno residents who had professional skills in mine and explosives for the task. One of them was Ivan Borodich.

Likholat and Borodich were detained in Grodno.

On August 10, 2020, during the protests, Alexey was driving in his car in Minsk in the area «Belaya Vezha». At the intersection, the man saw members of the special purpose police squad, who, looking for protesters, began to brutally detain car drivers: shoot and break windows in cars. Alexey, not expecting his detention, drove forward, where traffic police officers were just passing. Not noticing the official car, Alexey moved into its row. At the time of the maneuver, the traffic police car had already stopped, and the man went on about his business. In this action, the court saw interference in the activities of an employee of the internal affairs body (Article 365 of the Criminal Code).

At the same time and in the same place, there was allegedly a traffic police officer Mosenza, who testified at the end of December 2022, allegedly Alexey wanted to shoot him down then. For this, the man was charged with Article 364 of the Criminal Code and taken into custody.

Alexey has three children, one of them is a minor daughter of 5 years old.

Truck driver. A video on a pro-government channel claims that he was "transporting ballot forms from Poland with a choice already made in favor of one alternative candidate."

After 2-3 months after the stage in the penal colony he was sent to a punishment cell, from which he never returned. He was transferred to prison regime for three years.

There were at least nine hearings in the case. There were many witnesses at the trial who testified against him. Yevgeny was accused of administering the channel and urging Belarusians to take part in protests, editing posts, etc.

Detained for participating in protests in 2020.

On October 20, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

Observer, director, organizer of honey fairs and director of the Tsar-Med company.

Convicted for participating in protests on August 23, 2020 as a commentator

In the fall of 2024, Yuri's regime was changed and he was sent to serve his sentence in a penal colony.

In the fall of 2025, it became known that Yuri had been convicted of another criminal case and sentenced to imprisonment. The details of the case are unknown.

Vladislav, a blogger, poet and writer, was arrested in April 2021 and convicted a year later of fraud for promising more than 100 people in 2015–2016 to take part in Belarus’s first reality shows, but failing to keep his promise. He was also found guilty of participating in three Marches in 2020 and organizing protests via Instagram. Vladislav himself only admitted to participating in the rallies.

In October 2022, he was convicted again for insulting Lukashenko in a poem included in an appeal against the verdict.

On the portal of the online store Ridero.ru, under the pseudonym Vlad Savinn, his books are presented - the story "Ambidextrous" and the collection of poems "Poetry Through", available in printed and electronic form.