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Ekaterina was convicted of "participating 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.
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director of the news agency BelaPAN. On the morning of August 18, 2021, they came to her with a search. Then they took me to the agency's office for a search, and then for interrogation. Searches also took place at the homes of other BelaPAN journalists.
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A well-known activist on Facebook, a supporter of Viktor Babariko, is charged with Article 368 of the Criminal Code (“Insulting the President”). The Mogilev resident faces up to four years in prison.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
| 27.09.2021 | Detained for 367 h2 registered prone to extremism |
3 years in a general regime colony
Natalya was found guilty of commenting on the actions of a police lieutenant from the traffic police service from Kamenets (Brest region) Mikhalochkin in the telegram channel. During the investigation, Andropova said that she left a comment due to the fact that Mikhalochkin's father works at a school and raised his son profitably.
According to the prosecution, Olesya Ashmarina on January 14 and January 26 in the telegram channel “Baranovich-Yuzhny_chat” under the photo of the local head of the GOVD Aleksey Hetman left comments: “He testifies falsely in many administrative cases against peaceful demonstrators in the city of Baranovichi” and “I feel sorry for him, so young, and already the most famous fascist in the city of Baranovichi. But he can sit longer, many years of life ahead. The Baranovichi investigators qualified these comments as slander and insulting a representative of the authorities. Russian citizen.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
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vocalist of the band IRDORATH. Nadezhda was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of her birthday along with other musicians and guests of the holiday. Some of the people over the next two days were convicted on administrative cases of disobedience to the police.
On April 21, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 23.10.2021 | The period of detention was extended for another month for all detainees (6 people) in the case of the Irdorath group. |
2 years in a colony under general regime conditions
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was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of the birthday of IRDORATH vocalist Nadezhda Kalach along with musicians and other participants of the holiday.
On October 11, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 15.04.2022 | 10.04 Yuliya was transferred from PK-4 to Antoshkina and Gomel. |
In Ivatsevichi, Olga was convicted for comments in one of the telegram chats. She was charged with insulting a representative of the authorities, in this case, an employee of the Ivatsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, writes “First Region”. Among other things, the woman was charged with publishing “turd” emoticons, which she used to describe a police officer.
On February 9, 2022, the verdict was delivered in the second case. On April 8, 2022, an appeal was considered, the verdict was upheld. To the next 2 years, the house of chemistry added another 1 year, 50 basic fines and 1,000 rubles for moral damages.
Engaged in handicraft: cross-stitch, towels, pillow cases, bows, elastic bands, hairpins for girls. New orders are needed to work.
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Tatyana is a sociologist, expert at the Agency for Humanitarian Technologies and coordinator of the Flying University. She was first detained in August 2021 after a search and placed under arrest for 10 days, but after her release she remained a suspect in the criminal case.
She was detained again on March 23, 2022, the day she came to the Investigative Committee to receive a response to her petition to leave for treatment.
In June 2022, Tatyana was convicted for participating in a protest that took place on October 25, 2020, in Minsk, and sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional institution.
She was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
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08/06/2021 convicted in Lida. She was on maternity leave. Previously, she worked in the Lida Regional Executive Committee as a senior inspector in the documentation support department. Two children.
On January 4, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1.5 years in prison.
Natalia was convicted of "participating in group actions grossly violating public order" in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, people were singing and dancing in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
Natalia managed to leave the country before the sentence came into force.
In January 2025, as part of a special proceeding in Natalia's case, a hearing was held in absentia to consider replacing her restriction of freedom with a prison sentence in a penal colony. The outcome of the hearing is unknown.
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Yulia was first convicted, along with her husband, of "participating in group actions grossly violating public order" in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place on September 13, 2020, in Brest. During the protest, people were singing and dancing in circles, but a water cannon was used against them. The court sentenced Yulia to a restricted freedom order in the form of "house arrest."
Several months later, on October 13, 2021, her home was searched, after which she was detained in connection with a new criminal case and placed in pretrial detention. She was convicted a second time in July 2022 on six criminal charges, accused of providing information about officials involved in the criminal prosecution of her family. The court sentenced Yulia to imprisonment and a fine. On appeal, the court reduced her prison term by only three months and reduced the fine. Ultimately, her final sentence was 4 years and 9 months.
In January 2025, it became known that Yulia had been tried for a third time under the article on “assisting extremist activity.”
In the fall of 2025 , she was released, having fully served her sentence.
Tatyana was convicted of "participating 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.
In July 2021, Tatyana was convicted of "insulting a government official" for posting a video on social media containing verbal obscenities directed at traffic police officers, which was viewed by at least 120,000 people.
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Yulia, a human rights activist and volunteer at the Moscow Center for Civil Society and Information (MCGI) "Our House," and the daughter of renowned human rights activist Natalia Goryachko-Basalyga, was detained on July 14, 2021, as part of a criminal case opened under the article "Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
In March 2022, the court found Yulia guilty and sentenced her to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
Yulia was released in the courtroom. Her time in custody was counted toward her sentence, so her sentence was considered fully served.