He served his sentence in a correctional institution under Article 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, where his sentence was replaced with a restriction of liberty to imprisonment (10 months and 7 days). While in the correctional institution, he wrote "offensive" comments, for which he was sentenced to 1 year and 1 month of imprisonment.
On January 22, 2024, Vadim was tried again under Article 411, Part 1 of the Criminal Code, “Malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution executing a sentence of imprisonment.”
He was scheduled to be released on July 6, 2025.
1 year and 3 months imprisonment under strict security conditions
- Associations
- Detained under 18 years
According to the investigation , Nikita Struy, from May to November 2022, “in order to spread the ideology of Nazism, approve and deny crimes against the peace and security of mankind, war and other crimes, using a mobile phone he repeatedly posted images and comments in various Telegram channels aimed at the rehabilitation of Nazism.
In July and August 2022, in order to ensure the activities of the destructive Telegram channel and Telegram group, he, clearly knowing that their information products were recognized by the court as extremist materials, forwarded publications from these resources to other Telegram communities.”
Nikita Brui is the great-great-cousin of the people's writer of Belarus Yakub Kolas, and studied at a high school in the village of Nikolayevshchina.
In November 2022, state channels reported the detention of five participants in the closed chat “Union of the Belarusian National Shield” (UBNSH), recognized as an “extremist formation.”
The sentence was reduced on appeal from three to two years.
On September 15, 2023, the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years imprisonment in a correctional colony
- Associations
- Journalists
- Parents of minors
Igor Korney was detained on July 17 in Minsk and arrested for 10 days, he was in the detention center on Okrestina. His home was searched. After 10 days of arrest, he was not released and transferred to a pretrial detention center.
Igor worked for a long time as a journalist for Radio Svaboda, is known as an essayist, author of texts about the cultural and historical heritage of Belarus, and a travel blogger. Soon after his arrest, Igor's family left the country.
According to the indictment, Igor actively wrote "negative materials insulting the head of state, government officials, journalists and citizens who do not support the unconstitutional change of power. In addition, in his articles he gave a false picture of the economic, social, military and international situation of the Republic of Belarus."
Allegedly, from June 1 to July 14, 2023, he posted at least 54 information materials on BAJ resources. He was detained shortly thereafter.
On June 7, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On December 11, 2024, the Shklov District Court heard Igor's case under Part 1 of Article 411 (malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional facility). Judge Alexander Tarakanov found Igor guilty and sentenced him to another eight months of imprisonment.
As Radio Svaboda reports , the political prisoner was brought from the Mogilev pretrial detention center for several days to the KGB pretrial detention center in Minsk, from where he was returned to Mogilev: "... in the KGB pretrial detention center he went to see a doctor and they listened to his heart, confirmed that the rhythm was not very even, prescribed valerian. He also wrote that after the Shklov colony he lost 15 kg, now he is gaining some weight in Mogilev."
On June 21, 2025, Igor was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and was immediately taken to Lithuania.
According to journalists, the accusation is related to the fact that the Gomel resident transferred money to help Ukraine through the BYSOL fund. After the full-scale Russian invasion, he spoke out against the war on social networks and published reports on humanitarian assistance to residents of the Chernihiv region, they note.
Yuri Tashkinov is a Gomel entrepreneur, a resident of the city technopark. In 2018, he developed a mobile application for searching for providers of various services.
On October 27, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
The man worked as an ambulance doctor in Baranovichi and was remanded in custody pending trial. He was initially accused of "rehabilitating Nazism" for a repost that compared leaflets from Nazi Germany and leaflets from modern Russia. But in the middle of the trial, the charge was changed to "inciting hatred" towards Russians and Russians.
On September 22, 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
He was scheduled to be released on July 11, 2025.
He worked in the store "Green" as an electrician. I was detained on November 29, 2022 right at the workplace. First he received 15 days of arrest under 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Then a criminal case was opened. In a comment in which Vladimir condemned Russian military aggression, the investigator saw assistance to extremism.
On June 23, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
Released from criminal liability due to the expiration of the statute of limitations
In the summer and autumn of 2021, Dmitry twice marked “Class” on posts in the “ Stop Luka ” public in Odnoklassniki, due to which the publications became visible in the feed on the Mogilev resident’s page. The posts contained information about the activities of Alexander Lukashenko, which, according to the court , was slanderous and disgracing the personality of the head of the power vertical.
It is known that the man was tried for actions during the referendum in 2022 and the administration of the telegram channel of the Military Academy of Belarus.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Svetlana was convicted for her comments and participation in protests.
Released on July 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
2.5 years in prison
Oleg was tried for having painted several walls in the entrance of a multi-story building in February 2023. The inscriptions contained insults to A. Lukashenko.
Kardash was detained for the first time in March 2023. He was tried three times under administrative articles. Each time, he was sentenced to "24 hours." The first trial took place on March 9, 2023, because a video from August 2020 with the TUT.BY logo was found on the man's Odnoklassniki social network. The second trial took place on March 17, because cutting boards with "an image of a dog in a helmet with the SS emblem, a board with an image of a man in a helmet with the SS emblem" were found at the man's home - that is, Kardash allegedly "stored items with Nazi symbols for the purpose of distribution." The third trial took place on March 29 because he shared a video on the Odnoklassniki social network: the video had the Nexta logo (there was a brutal suppression of the Minsk protests that took place on the night of August 9-10, 2020). Kardash shared this video on August 14, 2020.
On September 12, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison
Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison.
3 months of arrest
