Olga Viktorovna Zyuzina (Kholyavko)

Russian citizen. Arrested on May 28, 2021 for a tweet written on May 23. The tweet led to a publication in LiveJournal with a reprint of the BBC Russian Service material about the incident with the Ryanair plane (on which Roman Protasevich was flying). Vikholm added her own title to the reprint: "Lukashenko's next crime: an act of state air piracy" , and the phrase "act of state air piracy" was cited in the text of the BBC as a reaction of the Greek Foreign Ministry.

On September 1, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence and immediately deported to the Russian Federation without the right to enter the Republic of Belarus for 10 years.

On September 27, 2020, she was detained and convicted under an administrative charge. After the trial, she had a seizure and was admitted to a mental hospital. Larisa has a depressive-anxious state with claustrophobia syndrome. On August 6, 2021, they came to her place of work, conducted a search and, after interrogation, placed her in a temporary detention facility for three days. On August 9, charges were brought under Art. 364 for the fact that she “took P.P. Petrov by the hand with brute physical force, thereby moving him from his place and did not allow him to work, and third parties committed violence against I.I. Ivanov.”

She was released in May 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

According to the prosecution, on May 27, 2021, the police came to Natalia's house. There, a woman "publicly insulted" Lukashenka with the words "we have a fucking state" and "a fucking president", which, according to the state prosecution, committed a crime under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code. An hour after uttering these words, the investigators were already conducting an inspection in the woman's apartment. During it, according to the prosecution, "wishing to express her superiority and permissiveness," Turova tore up the protocol. So the woman "damaged an official document" (part 1 of article 377 of the Criminal Code). She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.

director of the news agency BelaPAN. On the morning of August 18, 2021, they came to her with a search. Then they took me to the agency's office for a search, and then for interrogation. Searches also took place at the homes of other BelaPAN journalists.

A well-known activist on Facebook, a supporter of Viktor Babariko, is charged with Article 368 of the Criminal Code (“Insulting the President”). The Mogilev resident faces up to four years in prison.

According to human rights activists, she will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

vocalist of the band IRDORATH. Nadezhda was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of her birthday along with other musicians and guests of the holiday. Some of the people over the next two days were convicted on administrative cases of disobedience to the police.

On April 21, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.

was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of the birthday of IRDORATH vocalist Nadezhda Kalach along with musicians and other participants of the holiday.

On October 11, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.

08/06/2021 convicted in Lida. She was on maternity leave. Previously, she worked in the Lida Regional Executive Committee as a senior inspector in the documentation support department. Two children.

On January 4, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.

Yulia was first convicted, along with her husband, of "participating in group actions grossly violating public order" in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place on September 13, 2020, in Brest. During the protest, people were singing and dancing in circles, but a water cannon was used against them. The court sentenced Yulia to a restricted freedom order in the form of "house arrest."

Several months later, on October 13, 2021, her home was searched, after which she was detained in connection with a new criminal case and placed in pretrial detention. She was convicted a second time in July 2022 on six criminal charges, accused of providing information about officials involved in the criminal prosecution of her family. The court sentenced Yulia to imprisonment and a fine. On appeal, the court reduced her prison term by only three months and reduced the fine. Ultimately, her final sentence was 4 years and 9 months.

In January 2025, it became known that Yulia had been tried for a third time under the article on “assisting extremist activity.”

In the fall of 2025 , she was released, having fully served her sentence.

Marina, a confidant of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was detained on July 9, 2021, as part of a "KGB operation to purge radicals" and placed in pretrial detention on charges of financing the activities of an extremist group.

On November 10, 2021, the charge was reclassified to a more lenient charge—"training and preparing individuals to participate in actions that grossly violate public order, as well as their financing or other material support." After this, she was placed under house arrest.

On November 11, 2022, the court sentenced Marina to one and a half years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony, taking her into custody in the courtroom.

She was released in June 2023, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.

Lyudmila was convicted of insulting Lukashenko and arrested right in the courtroom. According to the prosecution, on August 12, 2020, she posted a long message with expressions addressed to Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte from her husband's account. At the trial, the woman explained that she published it for herself and did not realize that the post was available to other users. According to her, the page usually posted photos of animals, and this message was published publicly by mistake.

Lyudmila was released on March 9, 2022, as part of a pardon.

Sofia, a student at the European Humanities University and a citizen of the Russian Federation, was detained in May 2021 after the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk by Belarusian authorities. The plane was en route from Athens to Vilnius. Sofia was accused of administering the Telegram channel "Black Book of Belarus", which published personal data and information about the private lives of civil servants.

At the end of December 2021, she was finally charged under seven articles of the Criminal Code, after which the case was referred to court.

The case was heard behind closed doors. In May 2022, Sofia was found guilty of two criminal charges. Following the trial, she was sentenced to imprisonment and ordered to pay compensation to the victims and court fees totaling about $70,000. The entire amount was subsequently paid by her family.

Sofia was released in June 2023 as part of a pardon.

Olga, a blogger and designer, has been repeatedly persecuted and detained under administrative articles following the events that followed the 2020 elections in Minsk. In May 2021, her home was searched, after which Olga was detained as part of a criminal case opened on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." Before that, she was already a suspect under two articles of the Criminal Code - "insulting a judge" and "slandering an election commission employee."

In December of the same year, Olga was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.

She was released in June 2022, having served her full sentence as determined by the court.

Alina was convicted for performances with mannequins in the form of police officers with the inscription "OMON". Before her arrest in the courtroom, she had been under house arrest since January 2021.

She was released in February 2022, having fully served her sentence.