Ignat was arrested in August 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order" and was remanded in custody in a pretrial detention facility.
In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in 2020 in Soligorsk and sentenced to imprisonment and compensation for the "victims" of the police officers.
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2024, having fully served his sentence.
