to the officer third. In former Herlovic, who allegedly leaked conversations of Lukashenko's press secretary, one additional year of imprisonment was added to the 10-year sentence.
The court in Mogilev sentenced former KGB officer Alexei Kharlovych to another year in prison, who is serving 10 years in prison in a case of high treason (Part 2 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code of Belarus). He was found guilty of maliciously disobeying the management of a correctional institution (Article 411 of the Criminal Law). This was reported by the "Vyasana" human rights project.
Herlovic was arrested in March 2021. At the same time, the Belarusian state TV channel ONT showed the film Mancourts, in which it was said that in November 2020 he gave the creator of the next Telegram channel Stepan Putilo recordings of phone conversations between Alexander Lukashenko's press secretary, Natalya Eismont, and various officials. They discussed the events related to the murder of the activist Roman Bondarenko by the security forces.
However, these recordings, as indicated in the film, were made by the intelligence services to identify the "traitor". It was also stated in the film that after his arrest Kharlovic agreed to cooperate and began to participate in identifying people who help persecuted Belarusians to leave the country.
In March 2022, the court in the city of Minsk sentenced Herlovich to ten years in a maximum security colony. In October 2023, his arrest warrant was changed and he was transferred to Mogilev prison.
According to Viasana, as of November 12, 2026, 879 people were recognized as political prisoners in Belarus.