Year 2010 and the election of Aliaksandr Lukashenka for the fourth consecutive presidential term resulted in an incredible number of political prisoners in the country — about 60 people. Why is this number imprecise? Because most of them were released, some even managed to avoid the criminal “mock trials”, while some others were still kept in custody. The trials lasted for the whole of 2011 and concerned not only the Square. Among those punished there is Andrei Pachobut, independent journalist and activist of opposition Union of Poles in Belarus, representatives of anarchist youth movement and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski. Entrepreneur Mikalai Autukhovich is still kept in jail, too. A large-scale attack on the country’s civil society and a massive cleanup began exactly on 19 December — with a violent dispersal of the peaceful protest rally. People were not only intimidated, beaten, imprisoned or fined. Six out of ten candidates for President of Belarus, their electioneering agents, heads of their electoral headquarters, activists and adherents of democratic development of the country were imprisoned on charges of organizing and participating in a mass riot. The black wheel of vengeance started spinning.