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Chairman of the primary trade union organization of the free union of metalworkers of the MAZ plant.
He was taken into custody on charges of preparing participants in mass riots and calling for restrictive measures (sanctions). The trial was held behind closed doors.
He is expected to be released on May 5, 2025.
a resident of Novolotsk, detained on November 16 last year. He was tried five times for 15 days under Part 1 of Art. 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for unauthorized picketing. The trials were held on 18 and 29 November, 17, 23 and 28 December. On December 30, in the Vitebsk temporary detention facility, a criminal case was opened against Andrey under the article on insulting the president. On January 25, 2022, Korobov and three others were transported to Novopolotsk in this case and released on bail.
Andrei left the country for security reasons.
Convicted for insulting A. Lukashenko.
According to human rights activists, in December 2022, he fully served his sentence.
1 year imprisonment in a penal colony
Convicted under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (for a comment on the Internet).
On May 2, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Convicted under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (for commenting on the Internet).
According to human rights activists, in the summer of 2023 he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Convicted under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
According to human rights activists, he was released on January 3, 2024, upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
He was detained for comments he made in the Vitebsk 97 chat room about law enforcement officers during the events in Kazakhstan in January 2022.
A repentant video was published online, showing a naked young man apologizing for the comments he wrote.
He was released in September 2025, having served his full sentence.
Convicted for comments on social networks addressed to 2 police officers. Before the trial, the man was under recognizance not to leave the place and of proper behavior.
According to human rights activists, he was released in March 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to police witnesses, in the summer of 2020, the guy left messages in a local chat with advice to “gather in groups in each district, and then in a crowd to the center,” and for motorists to “leave their cars on the road” on central streets.
Released in May 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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.
290 base units.
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.
240 base units.
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.
300 base units.
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.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Ukraine.