Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a post about Andrei Komar, a senior police officer at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs. He was taken into custody in the courtroom immediately after the verdict was announced.
According to human rights activists, he was released in March 2024, having fully served his sentence.
