Convicted for drawing the inscriptions: "DO NOT BREAK, DO NOT BACK, DO NOT STRIKE", "RUN, RAT", "3%", circled two more inscriptions "PZ", "GO AWAY", an image resembling a mouse's face, an image of a red stripe, "EVERY DAY", "SUPPLY DID NOT GIVE UP", "THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER", "OUR FIGHT", "COCKS KO-KO-KO, KO-KO-KO", "3%", an image resembling the face of a smiling person - "smiley ”, an image of a red stripe on two power line pylons and four images of black and white flags on the garages of the Substroy consumer cooperative.
Convicted for drawing the inscriptions: "DO NOT BREAK, DO NOT BACK, DO NOT STRIKE", "RUN, RAT", "3%", circled two more inscriptions "PZ", "GO AWAY", an image resembling a mouse's face, an image of a red stripe, "EVERY DAY", "SUPPLY DID NOT GIVE UP", "THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER", "OUR FIGHT", "COCKS KO-KO-KO, KO-KO-KO", "3%", an image resembling the face of a smiling person - "smiley ”, an image of a red stripe on two power line pylons and four images of black and white flags on the garages of the Substroy consumer cooperative.
He was convicted because during the protests on August 9-10, 2020, together with other people, he became a human chain of people connecting with his hands in the elbow area.
According to estimates of human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Valentin was arrested in August 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under three criminal articles.
In January 2022, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony for "social media posts calling for street protests and active resistance if they were suppressed," as well as for filming a protest on August 12, 2020, on Cosmonauts Avenue in Grodno, a video of which he posted online with his own commentary.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Convicted under Article 364, Article 369, Article 368, Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. It is known that the man worked in a taxi, and was also a driver at various enterprises.
He was previously convicted of participating in protest actions under an administrative article.
In December 2020, Lyudmila Tsaranu saw in the Black Book of Belarus telegram channel an entry about local policeman Sergei Urodnich and reposted his Pruzhany/Pruzhany chat with the caption: "Our beauty". The woman recalls that the security forces first qualified the repost in the telegram as an insult to the authorities, but in the end the case was started under the article on libel. - Your president calls you "handsome", I also called him, what does your president call, how did I insult him? - the girl was perplexed. In court, a resident of Pruzhany pleaded not guilty and refused to testify.
She finished serving her sentence in March 2023.
27.01.2023
At the beginning of January, the term of "home chemistry" ended.
Trial outcome:
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
On November 19, 2021, Vadim was removed from the Moscow-Grodno train in Orsha. Detained for participating in protests on September 6, 2020 in Grodno near the Brest supermarket.
01.12. 2022 released after the expiration of the sentence.
There is almost no information from the court session. Human rights activists learned that as a punishment for the accused, the prosecutor asked for two years of "home chemistry" and moral compensation in the amount of 100 basic units.
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