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It is known that in Poland Oreshko worked as a human resources specialist — he looked for people to employ. He came to Belarus periodically. It is not known when he returned last, but he was detained several months ago.

Аreshko is currently in a pre-trial detention facility.

EPAM Senior Software Engineer Artur Memekh relocated to New Jersey in the spring of 2020. It appears he was detained while visiting relatives in Belarus.

He was last online on social media at the end of last autumn. It appears that Memekh decided to visit Belarus in late 2023 or early 2024 and was detained. Artur's trial begins on September 23, 2024, for "assisting extremist activity."

Cheslav Gerasimovich is 37 years old. He is from Minsk.

For some time in 2022, Gerasimovich worked in Vilnius, but in the fall of 2022 he returned to Minsk.

On June 26, Cheslav was convicted of “disobeying a police officer” in an administrative case.

Judging by the GUBOPiK video, Gerasimovich is accused of donating to the “extremist formation” four times. He is probably accused under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code.

Gerasimovich writes on social networks that he has been conducting training in psychotherapy for more than 15 years. Since 2011, he began working as a tester. He is interested in music and plays the guitar, and also writes poetry and short prose.

A well-known businessman from Polotsk. He was charged under Part 2 of Article 243-1 (evasion of duties as a tax agent in transferring taxes and fees), Article 369-1 (discrediting the Republic of Belarus), Part 1 of Article 243-3 (evasion of payment of insurance premiums), and Part 3 of Article 243 (evasion of payment of taxes and fees). The case was heard behind closed doors by the Vitebsk Regional Court. The hearing began on July 23, 2024, and lasted until February 28, 2025. The start date of the special proceedings is April 12, 2024.

After the opening of special judicial proceedings, the businessman returned to Belarus, despite the threat of prosecution, and was detained .

Vladimir had asthma and had a stroke. He also had a young daughter to support.

The sentence is imprisonment .

Ruslan Zubkov is 26 years old. According to social networks, he has lived and worked in Poland in recent years.

In December 2023, Zubkov was added to the list of members of the extremist group "Russia is Evil". This is a small Telegram chat with 135 members, where only three people are currently active. In February 2024, Ruslan was put on the wanted list in Belarus and Russia - this means that at that time he was still at large.

It is also unknown when Ruslan was detained. He was first tried in June 2024 for "insulting Lukashenko" in the Kamenets District Court. The verdict is unknown.

A resident of Bobruisk was detained on February 26, 2024, the day after returning from Poland.

First, he was convicted under administrative article 19.11 (distribution of extremist materials), and then a criminal case was opened under article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (creation of an extremist group). Maxim is allegedly considered involved in the creation of the extremist group “Bobruisk 375”.

He was detained in February when he returned to Belarus from work. Previously, Alexander worked at a locomotive depot, but after 2020 he was either fired or quit himself - it seems that the dismissal was politically motivated. After that, Kamlenok worked as a truck driver in Western countries. And when he returned home from work, he was detained. He was accused of insulting a government official.

The Verkhnedvinsky District Court recognized Alexander’s page on Odnoklassniki as extremist.

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.

Marina is a Belarusian-speaking IT specialist from EPAM who is also involved in creative work. She writes articles for the Belarusian Wikipedia, makes illustrations, translates into Belarusian, and writes poetry. After the start of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, she moved to Georgia, but then returned to Belarus for unknown reasons. Soon after, she was detained as part of a criminal case and convicted under the articles “financing extremist activity” and “financing or other financial support of war.”

On February 21, 2024, in the Pinsk District Court, Judge Andrey Bychilo considered the case under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of information products included in the republican list of extremist materials, as well as the production, publication, storage or transportation for the purpose of distributing such information products).

Apparently, a criminal case was opened after this.

Georgy Cherevako was detained in August while returning from the United States. He was convicted for a donation of $21.29, which he sent from his PayPal account in support of the Kalinowski Regiment. A Belarusian card was linked to the account, from which the funds were debited. The authorities considered these to be deliberate actions “for the purpose of financing activities for the recruitment, training, and other preparation” of persons for armed conflict in Ukraine.

At the trial, he said that he voluntarily told the officers who detained him that he was subscribed to numerous “extremist” telegram channels, and admitted that he had made a transfer to the account of Polk Kalinovsky.

He himself gave the employees passwords to enter the payment system. He said that he made a donation because he hoped that these funds would be used to purchase helmets, body armor, and medicines, but he understood that they would use them according to their own understanding and, among other things, buy weapons and ammunition with them.

It is known that the woman was detained when she returned from Italy.

On March 15, 2024, the appeal was considered.

Originally from Vitebsk , he studied in Gomel but most recently lived in Grodno. An engineer by profession, he most recently worked as a systems administrator at Whitebird. According to his social media accounts, he lived in Warsaw.

He is also a radio amateur and a member of the Belarusian Federation of Radio Amateurs and Radio Sportsmen.

The case hearing began in January 2024, with the last hearing taking place on March 29, 2024.

In the penal colony, pressure continues to be put on Kirill, who is regularly placed in solitary confinement despite the fact that he has serious health problems.

Igor Nemirovich was first detained in early May 2022 and immediately placed under house arrest, but he escaped and left. In the fall of this year, he appealed to the commission for reviewing appeals from Belarusians abroad and returned home, but this fact was not recognized as "an unconditional basis for concluding that he repented." On September 27, 2023, he was detained again and placed in custody.

According to the prosecution , on August 10, 2020, Igor Nemirovich posted a photo on Instagram with text in an "indecent form, degrading the honor and dignity of Alexander Lukashenko, which contained a negative assessment and was offensive towards him."

At the trial, Igor admitted his guilt in full and said that from May to August 2020, he did not live in Belarus. The Brest resident learned about the events that took place in his homeland from the media. "Having succumbed to negative emotions from the events being covered," he posted a photo of an "offensive nature" regarding Alexander Lukashenko on the social network Instagram.

08/16/2024 released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.

In October 2024, he was again detained on suspicion of "assisting extremist activity."

He was detained in early May 2023, when he came to deliver a parcel to his brother Maksim Lopatin, who was detained in the Machulishchi case. Before that, the man lived in Lithuania. He was detained in the same case of sabotage in Machulishchi and charged under Article 289 of the Criminal Code. Later, the article was reclassified to 361-2 of the Criminal Code (financing of extremist activity).

At the trial, Andrei did not admit guilt.

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