Aliaksandr was a fourth-year student at the Belarusian Institute of Law. On 6 February 2022, he and a friend were detained in Minsk by chance, having been mistaken for thieves or drug couriers. On Aliaksandr's phone, police found a video from the March of 16 August 2020 and a photo of special equipment near the Dynamo stadium that he had sent to the Nexta chatbot. He was accused of aiding group actions grossly violating public order and was held in a pre-trial detention center for almost three months. During that time, he was expelled from the institute a few months before graduation.
In April 2022, Aliaksandr was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the article "Organisation and preparation of actions grossly violating public order, or active participation in them" and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility. The Ministry of Transport and Communications, where he had been doing his pre-graduation internship, filed a claim against him for "blocking roads".
Aliaksandr later left Belarus.
In January 2025, a court hearing in absentia was held within special proceedings on toughening the type of punishment. The outcome of the hearing is unknown.
