He has dedicated his entire adult life to sports and military service. As recently as 2015, Maxim was running marathons and half-marathons as part of the Victoria Club.
He later served in the 38th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade in Brest. In February 2020, state media described him as an exemplary officer: "Guards Senior Lieutenant Dudorga became the best commander of an airborne platoon of special operations forces following a field training competition." It appears he rose to the rank of captain—at least that's how he was later signed in his notebooks: "Captain Dudorga." Maxim was an avid cyclist, participated in bike rides with the VeloBrest club, and even worked as a driver, driving passengers along the Minsk-Brest-Luninets route.
It is unclear whether Dudorga was still working in the special forces or had already quit.
Trial outcome 21.10.2025
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 09.01.2026
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.
Viktor was detained in a criminal case opened under the article "assistance to extremist activity" after Belarusian security forces gained access to the chats of a bot belonging to the Belarusian Gayun monitoring project, where people were submitting information about Russian troop movements.
In July 2025, Viktor was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Trial outcome 25.07.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Tatyana graduated fromthe MinskRadiotechnicalInstitute(nowBSUIR) and has an adult daughter and son.She enjoysspendingtime ather dacha,gardening, and hikingin the forest, and she travelsthroughout Belarus.
Tatyana was tried in the Minsk City Court under two articles of the Criminal Code: Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code (calls for sanctions and other actions aimed at causing harm to Belarus) and Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (assistance to extremist activity). Under these articles, she could only have been sentenced to a prison colony. The verdict came into force in early May.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
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Alexei was arrested in the spring of 2025 as part of a criminal case under the article "assistance to extremist activity," and in the fall of that year he was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral and a fine.
Trial outcome date unknown
4 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 500 basic values fine.
An engineer and technologist at a plant. Richard's mother is disabled.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 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.
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
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.
He worked as a long-haul truck driver. Alexander'slastknownjobwas at Mozyrsol.Before that, he workedin sports: as arowing coach and instructorand deputy director of a children's sports school.
He was detained in the "Gayun case" on March 6, 2025.
Trial outcome date unknown
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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.
Vasily is originally from Gomel. He is interested in cars and loves to make things with his hands. He graduated from the Military Academy and served in a missile brigade. He worked in the Armed Forces of Belarus for 15 years and received the rank of major. It is known that in the summer of 2021, he left the service and took up network marketing.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general 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.
Alexander, the former principal of the school in Krynki, headed it until approximately 2018. He was convicted of "assisting extremist activity" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open institution.
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.
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.
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.
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