“Thank you to the women who waited.” Tor Band showed their first rehearsal
After nearly four years of imprisonment, the musicians of Tor Band are playing together again. At their first rehearsal in Poland, they performed the lyrical song “Nasha Leta” (“Our Summer”), dedicating the video to the women who waited for their husbands or continue to wait for them.
The recording appeared on the band's Instagram. In the video, filmed on November 14, Dzmitry Halavach, Yauhen Burlo, and Andrei Yaremchyk are rehearsing together.
“Today we played some lyrical music, after four years. Whatever anyone says, in those places you need love especially acutely! Thank you to all the women who waited for their husbands, and to those who are waiting for them now!” the musicians captioned the video.
All three were released on September 16, 2026, as part of negotiations between Belarus and the United States, and were deported to Lithuania.
Tor Band was formed in Rahachou in 2017. Widespread fame came to the band in 2020: the songs “My ne narodets” (“We Are Not a Rabble”) and “Zhyve Belarus” (“Long Live Belarus”) became symbols of the protest movement. Despite the pressure, the musicians remained in Belarus.
They were detained on October 28, 2022. A year later, Halavach was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony, Burlo to eight, and Yaremchyk to seven and a half. They were accused of inciting hatred, creating an extremist formation, discrediting Belarus, and insulting Lukashenka.
Behind bars, Burlo's health deteriorated severely. He came to the sentencing hearing on crutches and was unable to stand up.
In February 2026, former political prisoner Ihar Losik recounted that the musician had undergone surgery on his right leg and urgently needed surgery on the other. “He told me that it was hell,” Losik wrote.
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