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Marina, a volunteer with the Society for Assistance to Homeless Animals, was found guilty in September 2021 of a criminal case filed under the article "insulting a government official." According to the case file, in September 2020, she left a comment on a friend's VKontakte page about a guard at the Shklov Correctional Colony.
The comment was prompted by a publication featuring a photograph of police officers in balaclavas. Marina recognized one of them as her neighbor, who, she said, participated in the dispersal of protests following the presidential elections on August 9, 2020.
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Initially, a criminal case was opened against Lyudmila for "insulting government officials," but it was later reclassified as "slander." The charges stemmed from a repost.
In December 2020, Lyudmila saw a post about local police officer Sergei Urodnich on the "Black Book of Belarus" Telegram channel and reposted it to the "Pruzhany/Pruzhana" chat with the caption: "Our handsome guy."
In court, she stated, "Your president calls you 'handsome,' and I called him the same thing your president calls him. How did I insult him?" She pleaded not guilty and refused to testify.
In May 2022, Lyudmila was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility, and was also ordered to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victim."
The period of "house arrest" ended in 2023.
After serving her sentence, the pressure on Lyudmila did not cease, and she was forced to leave Belarus.
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Valentina was found guilty in January 2022 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a post concerning the senior district police inspector of the Pervomaisky District Department of Internal Affairs in Bobruisk, Mogilev Region, Police Captain Andrei Komar.
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Administrator of the telegram channel «BSDP».
She was detained on January 19, 2022 at the workplace under a criminal article. A year ago, Lyudmila was a witness in another criminal case, in which her home was searched by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.
Lyudmila has a little child.
Lyudmila was found guilty in December 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" for, according to the charges, leaving a comment on the social network Odnoklassniki on August 25, 2020, under a post about Viktor Turchinovich, deputy head of the Kobrin District Department of Internal Affairs for ideological work and personnel support. The comment was deemed offensive by investigators.
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Olga was arrested in December 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "financing group actions that grossly violate public order."
According to the investigation, from August 13 to December 19, 2020, Olga, along with other individuals, allegedly financed participants in unauthorized mass events by paying fines, legal fees, state fees, and providing other financial assistance.
In July 2022, Olga was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in July 2023, having fully served her sentence.
Maria was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, she was convicted of participating in a protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Minsk and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus.
In October 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held within the framework of special proceedings on the issue of increasing the severity of the punishment.
Lidiya was arrested in January 2022 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, she was convicted of participating in the "March for Freedom" protest that took place on August 16, 2020, in Minsk and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Lidiya left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.
In October 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment with serving the sentence in a penal colony.
Ella was found guilty in December 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
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Alla was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment she left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Police Department, pinning a young man to the ground with his knee.
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Maria, a Russian citizen, was found guilty in January 2022 of a criminal case brought for insulting Lukashenko, specifically for a comment left in an "extremist" Telegram channel on May 26, 2021. It was related to the emergency landing of a Ryanair flight carrying Roman Protasevich.
Maria left Belarus before she began serving her sentence.
Natalia was arrested in December 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under articles for insulting a government official and Lukashenko.
In June 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.
In November 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Svetlana, deputy director of Minsk Gymnasium No. 42, was detained in December 2021 along with her daughter, Yana, as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." They were first detained in a temporary detention facility and later in a pretrial detention center.
In April 2022, she was found guilty of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Yana was detained in December 2021 along with her mother, Svetlana, in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." She was first held in a temporary detention facility and later in a pretrial detention center.
In April 2022, she was found guilty of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
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An activist from the European Belarus movement was detained on December 30, 2021, in connection with a criminal case alleging group actions that grossly violated public order.
On January 7, 2022, the woman was transferred to a pre-trial detention facility.
Elena has a little son.
In January 2023, Elena was transferred to Gomel Women's Colony No. 4. For a long time, a lawyer was unable to see the political prisoner; she was placed in solitary confinement.
In October 2023, it became known that Elena's package had not been accepted in August. This likely indicates that she had been deprived of her packages. The last letter from Elena arrived in early September, and no letters have been received since. Since Lazarchik's transfer to the penal colony, the prison administration has not granted permission to meet with a lawyer. Elena's current situation and her current condition are unknown. Elena is experiencing dental problems in the colony and has lost weight.
In mid-November 2023, human rights activists learned that Elena had been placed in solitary confinement again.
According to the testimony of the former political prisoner, Elena served more than 90 days in a punishment cell and more than 60 days in a PKT .
In the spring of 2025, Elena was convicted under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the lawful demands of the prison administration) and sentenced to an additional eighteen months in prison in addition to her eight years in prison. The date of the sentence is unknown. It is known that Elena refused legal representation at her trial.
On September 16, 2026, she was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.