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Aleksander, a football player for the Krumkachyov club, a journalist for Tribuna.com and the author of the YouTube channel ChestnOK, was detained at home on June 3, 2021. He was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - allegedly for the flag on the window, but after serving his term he was not released and transferred to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case on "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order." In January 2022, Oleksandr was sentenced to imprisonment.
He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Andrey, a lawyer, was first detained on the night of August 9-10, 2020, beaten and placed in the Zhodino temporary detention facility for three days, after which he was convicted under an administrative article.
On October 25, 2020, after another rally, he was detained again by GUBOPiK officers. Andrey spent three days in the temporary detention facility on Okrestina, and then a criminal case was opened against him under the article "Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
According to the prosecution, he joined a group of citizens, shouted slogans with obscene language, clapped his hands, moved along the roadway, waved his arms and a white-red-white flag. The court sentenced him to restriction of freedom with direction. Minsktrans filed a lawsuit for 62,096 rubles 66 kopecks. Andrey's accounts were frozen, property was seized.
On December 9, 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Vadim was accused of publishing a post from his mobile phone "with the aim of influencing public consciousness and undermining the authority of the authorities." The post included a photo of the local police officer Kayach with an obscene caption containing words beginning with the letters "g" and "e."
In the spring of 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Viktor was convicted of the fact that, according to the indictment, on February 27, 2021, with the intent to publicly insult government official Dmitry Leshko, he posted a comment on a publication on Odnoklassniki regarding a police major - "s******* g****k".
According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Sergei, a pensioner, was first convicted in the summer of 2021.
According to the prosecution, on December 9, 2020, he left a comment in one of the Odnoklassniki chats, "cop pig," under a post with an image of junior police lieutenant Mikhail Zharikov. The court sentenced him to restriction of freedom without direction.
In September of the same year, Sergei was convicted again, this time for a comment under a photograph of senior traffic police inspector M. Yu. Malakhevich, which, according to the court, contained offensive statements. Taking into account the previous sentence, the punishment was replaced with restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional facility.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2023, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Nadezhda was found guilty of the fact that from November 9 to 23, 2020, she intentionally and in an indecent manner posted a comment under a YouTube video in which the traffic police in Bobruisk seized a car without reason, with a negative assessment of government officials - police major Oleg Banduro, senior lieutenant Drozd and junior lieutenant Anisichkov - with the content "They are recruiting idiots", which harms their honor and dignity.
Rostislav was found guilty of insulting three employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs through comments on one of the Telegram channels recognized by the Belarusian authorities as extremist, and was sentenced to restriction of freedom with a referral.
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Dmitry, a student at the Lida Lyceum of Land Reclamation Construction, was convicted of allegedly acting in a group with others and throwing pieces of paving slabs and other objects at police cars. Dmitry partially admitted his guilt and was taken into custody in the courtroom.
According to human rights activists, he was released in June 2022, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Vladimir was detained and beaten in September 2020. He was convicted of participating in protests that took place in Minsk from August 9 to 11 and September 13, 2020. According to the case materials, he planned to participate in the protests, discussing routes and actions in case of detention in the Telegram chat "Chas X". The investigation claimed that an attack on police officers was being prepared.
He was released in September 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Tatyana was convicted for a comment left on August 14, 2020, on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photo of police officer Yuri Chernyshkov. According to the prosecution, she publicly insulted a government official in order to undermine the authority of state bodies. The examination considered her words a negative assessment. The court sentenced Tatyana to restricted freedom.
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In June 2021, Olga was found guilty under the article "violation of equality of citizens" for refusing to rent an apartment to the assistant prosecutor of the Frunzensky district of Minsk, Alina Kasyanchik. She was sentenced to restriction of freedom.
Viktor was first detained on September 27, 2020, during one of the protests in Gomel. In the detention center, he was informed that a criminal case had been opened for "resisting police officers." The case was soon closed, but the prosecutor's office sent it for additional investigation, as a result of which the charges were reclassified. Viktor was taken into custody again on June 17, 2021.
In September of the same year, he was found guilty of “violence or threat of violence against a police officer” and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
In April 2022, the court additionally found him guilty of "participation in actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced him to another year and a half in prison. By partially adding up the sentences, the final term was 3.5 years in a maximum security penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Tatyana was convicted for calling Vitaly Stasyukevich, deputy head of the public order protection department of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee Internal Affairs Directorate, a "hateful bastard" in the Grodno 97% Telegram channel. This statement was classified as an insult to a government official. Tatyana was sentenced to restriction of freedom without being sent to a correctional facility and was ordered to pay moral compensation to the "victim."
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Maxim was convicted for a comment left on Instagram under a post with a photograph of the senior inspector of the mass events department of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, police lieutenant colonel Dmitry Krotov.
He was released in June 2022, having served his full sentence.
Sergei was convicted of tearing down the state flag, which was attached to the entrance to the Baranovichi City Housing and Communal Services building on May 24, 2021, according to the Supreme Court, breaking the flagpole in the process.
He was released in July 2022, having served his full sentence.