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Matvey, a freight forwarder and student at the Minsk College of Entrepreneurship, was convicted for participating in a protest action, the March for the Liberation of Political Prisoners, which took place on October 4, 2020, in Minsk.
In December 2024, it became known that a court hearing in absentia was held regarding Matvey to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Andrei is a Russian citizen and a volunteer for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's initiative group. He was first detained on June 6, 2020, in Belarus for participating in a picket to collect signatures, which was considered an unauthorized event. He was soon charged under the article on "preparing and organizing actions that grossly violate public order."
On November 26, 2020, Andrei was taken to the border with Russia and banned from entering Belarus for 10 years. He left behind a wife and two children in the country.
On April 13, 2021, he was detained again in the village of Prusy, where he had secretly come to visit his family. He was later convicted of “illegal border crossing,” although the charges in the previous case were not dropped.
He was released in October 2022 after completing his sentence and deported to Russia.
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German was detained by GUBOPiK officers in March 2021. During the detention, he was severely beaten, his teeth were knocked out, thereby forcing him to write a confession. It is also known that a week before the detention, German's father, who had a disability, died. He was convicted under the article on "inciting hatred or discord" for two comments left on Telegram in August 2020.
He was released in November 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Dmitry was arrested and convicted for, according to investigators, taking part in the production and burning of dolls near Mogilev that referenced officials, including Lukashenko.
He was released in November 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Artem, a student, was first detained and severely beaten after a protest, the Pensioners' March, in November 2020. He was then sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article.
However, on March 24, 2021, during the days of mass preventive detentions before Freedom Day, he was arrested again early in the morning in a dormitory, allegedly because of a flag he had spotted, and sentenced to 25 days of administrative arrest. But the very next day, a video appeared on the Telegram channel of the propagandist Azarenka, in which Artem confessed to administering the public page. It later became known that he was beaten with truncheons to force him to record this confession.
He was never released, as a criminal case was opened against him. Artem was subsequently convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and "creation of an extremist group."
Released in January 2025 as part of a pardon.
Alexander was convicted for a comment left under one of the posts on Odnoklassniki, addressed to the head of the Dzerzhinsky District Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk Region, Yevgeny Zhilinsky.
He was released in January 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Sergei was arrested and convicted for, according to investigators, “deliberately attaching a metal wire between two railroad rails by wrapping it around the rails.”
He was released in August 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Viktor was arrested and convicted for attempting to block rail traffic. In two cases, the blockade worked, disrupting train traffic.
He was released in August 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Vladimir was arrested and convicted for attempting to block rail traffic. In two cases, the blockade worked, disrupting train traffic.
He was released in August 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Sergei was arrested and convicted for attempting to block rail traffic. In two cases, the blockade worked, disrupting train traffic.
According to human rights activists, he was released in August 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Gennady was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, people sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
Viktor was arrested in August 2020 as part of a criminal case opened after a protest held on August 10, 2020 in Novopolotsk against the falsification of the presidential elections. He was later released on bail.
In January 2021, Viktor was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restriction of freedom. However, in June, he was released from the correctional facility pending appeal, as the prosecutor filed a protest. At the end of June, his sentence was changed to imprisonment.
In December 2022, Viktor's sentence was changed to prison.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Alexander was arrested in connection with a criminal case brought for damaging three "Tabakeroks". He was convicted of writing the words "Tribunal" and "OMON" on two of them.
Ilya was arrested in connection with a criminal case brought for damaging three "Tabakeroks". He was convicted of writing the words "OMON" and "Sasha" on one of them, along with obscene language.
Daniil was detained as part of a criminal case opened for damaging three "Tabakeroks". He was taken to the Investigative Committee, where he was interrogated for two days without food, water or toilet, so that he would take all the blame on himself.
He was convicted for depicting on one of them a cross with four letters: OGSB.