List of the political prisoners in 1996 year

1. Adamovich Slavomir

Slavomir Adamovich was born on 8 March 1962 in Russia. Later, his family moved to ancestral homelands and settled in Belarus. He graduated from vocational school No. 17 in Swirsk (the Southern Baikal region). He has worked in Kazakhstan, sovkhoz Budslav, for Belarusian railways, and in the Kirov machine factory in Minsk. He is a […]

2. Burlaka Andrej

A citizen of Ukraine, participant of the Chernobyl Path in 1996, an annual demonstration that takes place in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Member of the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence). Andrei was born in 1985 in Ukraine, he tried to enter the seminary because he wanted to become a […]

3. Dryhaila Andrej

Andrej is a citizen of Ukraine, participant of the Chernobyl Path in 1996, an annual demonstration that takes place in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Member of the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence). Chronicle of repression Andrej Dryhaila was arrested during the pacification of the Chernobyl Path-96 demonstration by the […]

4. Gocz Vyacheslav

Vyacheslav is a citizen of Ukraine, participant of the Chernobyl Path in 1996, an annual demonstration that takes place in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Member of the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence). Chronicle of repression Vyacheslav was arrested during the pacification of the Chernobyl Path-96 demonstration by the Belarusian […]

5. Hadyka Yury

A well known politician and scholar. One of the first political prisoners in independent Belarus. He was born on 23 June 1938 in Minsk. Yury Hadyka graduated with honours from the high school No. 4 in Minsk. In 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of the Belarusian State University. He worked at the […]

6. Miraniuk Andrej

A citizen of Ukraine, participant of the Chernobyl Path in 1996, an annual demonstration that takes place in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Born in 1975, comes from Taman.

7. Potapov Sergiej

A citizen of Ukraine, participant of the Chernobyl Path in 1996, an annual demonstration that takes place in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Member of the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence).

8. Ramaszeuski Andrej

Andrej was born on 18 July 1970 in Minsk. He studied chemistry at the Belarusian State University. In 1993, he created the Beer Lovers Party of Belarus. For a time he cooperated with  BPF News and Svaboda newspapers.

9. Salaviej Uladzimir

A citizen of Ukraine, participant of the Chernobyl Path in 1996, an annual demonstration that takes place in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Member of the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence). He was born in 1943 in a small town of Saratov, Russia. The professional military, the participant of war […]

10. Sheptytsky Andrej

A citizen of Ukraine, participant of the Chernobyl Path in 1996, an annual demonstration that takes place in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. A descendant of the famous Polish-Ukrainian noble family, further relative and namesake of the famous Andrej Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. What is interesting due to […]

11. Sivchyk Vyacheslav

Vyacheslav Sivchyk together with Yury Hadyka were the first Belarusian political prisoner in the post-Soviet times.

12. Viachorka Vincuk

A well-known Belarusian social and political activist, lecturer, researcher and scholar. One of the founders of the Belarusian National Front Revival (BNF) in 1988, from 1999 to 2007 the chairman of the party.

13. Wieczar Ales

Belarusian scientist, grew up in Minsk, in a family of scientists and biologists. He was friends with the children of the Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Chigir for which, in fact, he was imprisoned. Chronicle of repression He was imprisoned in 1996 under fabricated charges of theft of car spare parts. In fact, the investigators […]