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In the fall of 2021, Olga was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for reposting from an "extremist" channel. She was also found to have an image of Lukashenko and Belarusian officials in Nazi uniforms, which led to the criminal case. According to investigators, Olga posted this image in a closed chat more than a year ago.
In January 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony. Olga was taken into custody in the courtroom.
She was released in June 2023, having fully served her sentence.
Alexander was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, pinning a person's head to the pavement with his knee.
Olga was found guilty of insulting a government official for a comment addressed to Vadim Prigara, head of the Molodechno District Police Department, on the social network Odnoklassniki, under Olga Karach's post. The "thumbs down" reaction, as well as the comment itself, which Olga deleted and which was not read in court, were considered insults.
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Anna was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article "Desecration of State Symbols," specifically for altering a verse of the national anthem on her personal Twitter account, beginning it with the phrase "We are extremists—peaceful people..." According to the charges, she committed a mockery of the national symbol—the anthem.
Marina was found guilty in July 2021 of a criminal case under the article "insulting a government official" for a comment left in August 2020 on the social network Odnoklassniki addressed to police major A.V. Bagraenko, a traffic police inspector with the Svetlogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs. According to the prosecution, this constituted a public insult.
Victoria was found guilty three times in a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official."
She was first convicted in March 2021 for a comment under a post about Vasily Molchan and Igor Kachuk, police officers from the Sovietsky District Administration of Minsk, which the court deemed degrading.
She was later convicted again for a comment on Telegram addressed to Vadim Yakimchik, a senior detective in the criminal investigation department. For both counts, Victoria was given a suspended sentence without being sent to an open correctional facility.
In December 2021, she was convicted again on a third count. The details of the case are unknown. It is only known that the state prosecution had requested a sentence of restricted freedom and placement in an open correctional facility, while at that time, Victoria had approximately six months left to serve her sentence of house arrest.
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Kirill, an engineer, was found guilty in May 2021 of criminal hooliganism committed by a group of persons for replacing the red-green flag with a white-red-white one during a protest on August 16, 2020, in Gomel.
Matvey 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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According to the investigation, in October 2020, Irina made an emotional comment on a Telegram channel about two police officers she knew: Andrei Sebetsky, deputy chief of the Leninsky District Police Department in Bobruisk, and Sergei Rudko, head of the law enforcement and crime prevention department of the Bobruisk City Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate.
A few days later, they came to search her and informed her that a criminal case had been opened.
In May 2021, Irina was found guilty of "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom. She was also ordered to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victims." In court, Irina confirmed that she had left the comment but noted that she did not consider it offensive.
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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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Alexander 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.
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Kristina was found guilty in February 2021 of "desecration of buildings and damage to property" for painting artistic images and inscriptions, including symbols and slogans of solidarity, in various locations in Skidel, the Grodno region, and nearby villages.
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Andrei, an artist, was found guilty in February 2021 of desecration of buildings and property for painting images and graffiti, including symbols and solidarity slogans, in various locations in Skidel, the Grodno region, and nearby towns.
Nikolai was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened for "insulting Lukashenko." The case stemmed from remarks he made about Lukashenko in a traffic police vehicle, where he was placed for not having a reflector. The conversation was recorded on a dashcam.
In court, Nikolai admitted his guilt and refused to testify. He had previously attributed his statements to dissatisfaction with the state of the streets and uncleared sidewalks.
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Andrei, the head of the Kromverk board game club and one of the organizers of the Unicon board game festival, was arrested in September 2021 as the administrator of a Telegram channel and convicted of an administrative offense. He was not released after this, but was transferred to a pretrial detention center on criminal charges of "insulting Lukashenko" and "insulting a government official."
In December 2021, Andrei was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility. After the verdict was announced, he was released from custody in the courtroom, but later that evening he was arrested again on a new charge of "insulting a government official" for online comments about Karpenkov, Kachanova, and others.
In March 2022, Andrei was again found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in February 2024, having fully served his sentence.