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Convicted for helping Kristina Poltavets in drawing images of storks, cats, girls with white-red-white hair, the “chase” coat of arms, a white-red-white Christmas tree, solidarity inscriptions “Long live Belarus!”, “Join!”, “I’m leaving” , images by Roman Bondarenko.
100 base units .
The grounds for initiating a criminal case were insults to Lukashenka in the traffic police car, where he was placed for lack of flicker, which was recorded on a video recorder. The man pleaded guilty at the trial and refused to testify. Earlier, he explained that he was not satisfied that the sidewalks were uncleaned and therefore he insulted the president.
150 base units .
a resident of Novolotsk, detained on November 16 last year. He was tried five times for 15 days under Part 1 of Art. 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for unauthorized picketing. The trials were held on 18 and 29 November, 17, 23 and 28 December. On December 30, in the Vitebsk temporary detention facility, a criminal case was opened against Andrey under the article on insulting the president. On January 25, 2022, Korobov and three others were transported to Novopolotsk in this case and released on bail.
Andrei left the country for security reasons.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Convicted for drawing the inscriptions: "DO NOT BREAK, DO NOT BACK, DO NOT STRIKE", "RUN, RAT", "3%", circled two more inscriptions "PZ", "GO AWAY", an image resembling a mouse's face, an image of a red stripe, "EVERY DAY", "SUPPLY DID NOT GIVE UP", "THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER", "OUR FIGHT", "COCKS KO-KO-KO, KO-KO-KO", "3%", an image resembling the face of a smiling person - "smiley ”, an image of a red stripe on two power line pylons and four images of black and white flags on the garages of the Substroy consumer cooperative.
290 base units.
Convicted for drawing the inscriptions: "DO NOT BREAK, DO NOT BACK, DO NOT STRIKE", "RUN, RAT", "3%", circled two more inscriptions "PZ", "GO AWAY", an image resembling a mouse's face, an image of a red stripe, "EVERY DAY", "SUPPLY DID NOT GIVE UP", "THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER", "OUR FIGHT", "COCKS KO-KO-KO, KO-KO-KO", "3%", an image resembling the face of a smiling person - "smiley ”, an image of a red stripe on two power line pylons and four images of black and white flags on the garages of the Substroy consumer cooperative.
240 base units.
Convicted for drawing the inscriptions: "DO NOT BREAK, DO NOT BACK, DO NOT STRIKE", "RUN, RAT", "3%", circled two more inscriptions "PZ", "GO AWAY", an image resembling a mouse's face, an image of a red stripe, "EVERY DAY", "SUPPLY DID NOT GIVE UP", "THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER", "OUR FIGHT", "COCKS KO-KO-KO, KO-KO-KO", "3%", an image resembling the face of a smiling person - "smiley ”, an image of a red stripe on two power line pylons and four images of black and white flags on the garages of the Substroy consumer cooperative.
300 base units.
Valentin was arrested in August 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under three criminal articles.
In January 2022, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony for "social media posts calling for street protests and active resistance if they were suppressed," as well as for filming a protest on August 12, 2020, on Cosmonauts Avenue in Grodno, a video of which he posted online with his own commentary.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
In December 2020, Lyudmila Tsaranu saw in the Black Book of Belarus telegram channel an entry about local policeman Sergei Urodnich and reposted his Pruzhany/Pruzhany chat with the caption: "Our beauty". The woman recalls that the security forces first qualified the repost in the telegram as an insult to the authorities, but in the end the case was started under the article on libel. - Your president calls you "handsome", I also called him, what does your president call, how did I insult him? - the girl was perplexed. In court, a resident of Pruzhany pleaded not guilty and refused to testify.
She finished serving her sentence in March 2023.
| 27.01.2023 | At the beginning of January, the term of "home chemistry" ended. |
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
He was detained on December 8, 2021 for the sticker of the coat of arms of the «Chase» on the phone and sentenced to 15 days of arrest.
After the administrative arrest, he was not released.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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Programmer. Arrested on January 12, 2022.
The case on replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony was heard on February 26, 2025, in the Pukhovichi District Court.
Most likely, Ilya is outside the Republic of Belarus.
3 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
There is almost no information from the court session. Human rights activists learned that as a punishment for the accused, the prosecutor asked for two years of "home chemistry" and moral compensation in the amount of 100 basic units.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
A 68-year-old local resident of Soligorsk read a post in Odnoklassniki concerning the senior district inspector of the department of internal affairs of the Pervomaisky district of Bobruisk, Mogilev region, police captain Andrey Komar . Under the post, she wrote her comment, which became the reason for the policeman to go to court.
He was detained for participating in a coupling at protests on August 9, 2020. Was calculated from the photo.
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.