Denis Anatolyevich Tolstoystenkov
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Denis Anatolyevich Tolstenkov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. According to his decree, political prisoners were unreasonably restricted in their rights in penal colony No. 4. Tolstenkov exerted psychological pressure on women convicted for political reasons. Insulted them, humiliated them on the basis of gender, wished for their death. Prevented them from receiving parcels and communicating with lawyers. He drew up reports on far-fetched grounds, and then held commissions to determine punishment.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Denis Anatolyevich Tolstenkov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. According to his decree, political prisoners were unreasonably restricted in their rights in penal colony No. 4. Tolstenkov exerted psychological pressure on women convicted for political reasons. Insulted them, humiliated them on the basis of gender, wished for their death. Prevented them from receiving parcels and communicating with lawyers. He drew up reports on far-fetched grounds, and then held commissions to determine punishment.
List of repressed
was detained on October 21, 2021 and until mid-December was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center as part of a criminal case on terrorism. Then the charge was reclassified to Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. At the trial, it turned out that the term of imprisonment in the KGB pre-trial detention center would not be counted. The term of serving the sentence is considered from December 16, 2021.
On February 20, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1.5 years in prison.
An activist of the Mothers 328 movement, she sent many complaints about the illegal detention of her son and his sentencing under a criminal article.
She was detained for “slander” and sentenced to 4 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IWOT. She served her sentence in IUOT-1. On April 12, 2024, a court hearing was held to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a colony for 10 months.
10 months imprisonment
- Associations
- Parents of minors
According to the case materials , in January 2021, Gavrilov purchased and provided two acquaintances, Tatyana and Oleg Birulya, with aerosol cans of paint. After which, from January to February 2021, the latter applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure objects in Soligorsk, "causing them to become damaged." They also applied an inscription to the wall of one of the houses regarding Lukashenko, "in which they accused him of a particularly serious crime, that is, they committed slander."
Then, from August to December 2021, the accused distributed leaflets and other printed materials in Soligorsk . The content of these leaflets was allegedly aimed at inciting social hatred and discord on the basis of a different social affiliation.
At the end of winter 2024, it became known that Tatyana was being transferred to a prison in Zhodino.
- Associations
- Retirees
For comments in the Telegram channel. The victims were the chairman of the Volkovysk district executive committee, Mikhail Sitko (the only one who did not file a claim for compensation for moral damage), OMON policemen of the Grodno Internal Affairs Directorate Daria Bondarchuk and Maria Mazurkevich, head of the police department of the Volkovysk district police department Valery Romanchik, head of the Volkovysk district police department Vitaly Osotsky. In total, the victims estimated their moral suffering at 5,000 rubles - while the accused has a pension of 500 rubles. The woman in the last word said that imprisonment would be a "death sentence" for her, but judge Andrei Tolochko sentenced her to 2.5 years in prison.
She was released on September 20, 2022 by pardon.
2.5 years in a general regime colony
She was convicted of spray-painting images of the white-white flag on various surfaces in the city.
Detained again for comment in 2021.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in January 2024 upon expiration of her sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime and penalty 6400 BYN.
A resident of Rogachev was detained on January 19, 2022 in a criminal case initiated after protests in Zhlobin in August 2020. The woman's house was searched, Zhlobin was taken to the Investigative Committee for interrogation, then to the temporary detention center, and then to the pre-trial detention center.
On May 15, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with a general regime.
Oksana was sentenced to 2.5 years of restriction of freedom and was sent to an open correctional facility. On December 17, 2021, the appeal was considered.
In 2022 , the punishment was tightened and Oksana was sent to a colony.
According to human rights activists, she was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with assignment to an open correctional facility.
Convicted of insulting Lukashenko (posting a picture of the dictator in Nazi uniform in a closed chat).
Arrested in the courtroom on January 28, 2022.
On January 6, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 22.04.2022 | Approximately from 11.04 she was transferred to prison 4 in Mogilev. Since then, there have been no letters. On April 26, 2022, a trial will be held in the Mogilev Regional Court, as the prosecutor's office filed a protest. |
1,5 years of imprisonment.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Administrator of the telegram channel «BSDP».
She was detained on January 19, 2022 at the workplace under a criminal article. A year ago, Lyudmila was a witness in another criminal case, in which her home was searched by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.
Lyudmila has a little child.
According to the materials of the investigation, Olga Yaltsevich, together with other persons, from August 13 to December 19, 2020, allegedly paid the amount of monetary penalties imposed on offenders, lawyers, state fees for filing complaints, other material assistance to participants in unauthorized mass events, and also transferred funds to compensate for damage caused to the state by illegal actions.
On July 21, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Teachers
The deputy director of Gymnasium No. 42 in Minsk, was detained together with her daughter Yana on December 22, 2021 as part of a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order.
On December 30, she was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
Released at the end of September 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
She was detained together with her mother Svetlana on December 22, 2021 as part of a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order.
On December 30, she was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
Released at the end of September 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Students
3rd year student of the Faculty of Psychology of Gomel University. Detained for distributing stickers in Chechersk.
Earlier it was reported that in August 2021, a guy and a girl were detained for this case, but they were released. Rita was detained again on December 28, 2021 as part of a criminal article.
10/12/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment.
Resident of Molodechno. Detained on November 30, 2021 for participating in protests. Released on August 20, 2022 after the expiration of her sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony
- Associations
- Journalists
On October 30, Irina was detained at the Minsk airport when she and her husband were returning from vacation. On November 1, Pervomaisky District Judge Maxim Trusevich sentenced them both to 15 days of arrest for allegedly storing materials on Facebook that were deemed "extremist." On November 15, journalist Irina Slavnikova was sentenced to another 15 days of arrest for the second time in a row. On November 26, it became known that Irina Slavnikova had become a suspect under Article 342 of the Criminal Code.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 political prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries . Among those released is Irina Slavnikova .
