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Dmitry was convicted in August 2021 for a comment on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photograph of Sergei Rudko, head of the Bobruisk City Executive Committee's law enforcement department. A linguistic expert concluded that the comment was offensive and contained obscene language.
Convicted for threatening violence in comments to Nikolai Karpenkov.
On May 24, 2023, it became known that Salim would be tried again under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
In August 2024, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Pavel was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Pavel was arrested in October 2020 on charges of "hooliganism" and "violence or threat of violence against a police officer" and placed in pretrial detention. During the investigation, the charge of violence against a police officer was dropped because the charges were not substantiated.
In December 2020, Pavel was convicted of kicking the bumper of a traffic police car during the "People's Inauguration" march, which took place in Minsk on September 27, 2020. It is also known that while in custody, Pavel was convicted of an administrative offense for participating in the protest and fined 30 basic units. The ruling stated: "Failed to appear in court."
Released in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.
Marina was found guilty in December 2020 in a criminal case opened under the article "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." The case concerned the events of August 9, 2020. At that time, Marina, a pharmacist, was detained and brutally beaten by two riot police officers, Daria Bondarchuk and Maria Mazurkevich. However, the criminal case was specifically opened against Marina. While being physically choked, Marina instinctively bit the hand of one of the police officers.
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Yuri was found guilty in December 2020 in a criminal case for posting images on the social network VKontakte that, according to the prosecution, "contained a negative assessment of Lukashenko."
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Svyatoslav was found guilty in December 2020 of resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order. He was accused of resisting arrest on September 17, 2020, during a solidarity chain in Minsk when he attempted to join the protesters carrying the Russian flag. He was subsequently beaten by riot police. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was taken from the Pervomaisky District Police Department to intensive care, then to the surgical ward, where police officers placed him in custody and handcuffed him to a hospital bed for 72 hours.
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Vladimir was convicted in December 2020 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." He was accused of "calling for violent actions against police and riot police officers using a sound-amplifying device" on August 21, 2020, at Independence Square near the Lenin monument in Minsk. During his arrest, Vladimir suffered a heart attack, after which he was placed on a third-degree disability.
In the summer of 2023, Vladimir's sentence, imposed by the court, ended.
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Dmitry was convicted for a conflict with traffic police officers during the brutal dispersal of a protest that took place in Grodno on August 13, 2020.
Maxim was found guilty in November 2020 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" for standing up for a girl carrying a white-red-white flag who was being beaten by security forces during the dispersal of a peaceful protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Slonim.
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Yuri was found guilty in November 2020 of a criminal case under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," for participating in a post-election protest on August 11, 2020, in Mozyr, during which he threw stones at a police car. At the time of the protest, his arrest, and the criminal case hearing, Yuri was a minor.
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Sergei was found guilty in November 2020 of a criminal case under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," for participating in a post-election protest on August 11, 2020, in Mozyr, during which he threw stones at a police car. At the time of the protest, his arrest, and the criminal case hearing, Sergei was a minor.
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Sergei was found guilty in October 2020 of "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order." The pensioner was accused of threatening riot police with a knife when they broke down his apartment door after he called the police and asked them to prosecute Lukashenko for insulting Viktor Babaryka. Sergei was shot in the chest with a pump-action shotgun for this.
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Evgeny, a pensioner with a third-degree disability and a two-time stroke survivor, was found guilty in August 2021 of a criminal case brought for insulting Lukashenko. The criminal case was initiated following a call to 911, during which, according to Interior Ministry employee Ovsiyenko, Evgeny "intended to insult Lukashenko and portray him in a humiliating position in the eyes of the general public."
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Sergei was found guilty in August 2021 in a criminal case opened under the articles "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and "insulting a judge" for comments left on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" regarding GUBOPiK officer Alexander Aleksa and Leninsky District Judge Marina Klimchuk.
In September 2024, a court hearing was held in absentia as part of a special proceeding to replace the restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.