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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.
Alexander 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, as well as to compensation for moral damages.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 in a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" for a comment he allegedly left on the social network Odnoklassniki addressed to riot police officer S.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Police Department, pinning a detained man to the ground with his knee.
Alexey was found guilty in January 2022 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel on November 22, 2021, under a post addressed to Natalia Yarmolinskaya, a district juvenile affairs inspector from Borisov.
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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.
Stanislav was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened following spontaneous protests that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020, against the falsification of the presidential elections.
In January 2022, he was convicted of participating in "mass riots" and sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony. He was accused of intentionally breaking paving slabs while preparing "instruments of crime." He was also charged with causing physical harm, in the form of two wounds to the thumb of Igor Kalyagin's right hand, and "beating" other victims.
He was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Nikita was found guilty of grossly disturbing public order in Minsk in August 2020: on the nights of August 9-10 and August 30. He allegedly blocked traffic, including by "elbow-to-elbowing," thereby stopping it.
He was convicted under the article on insulting the president (Article 368 of the Criminal Code).
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
In April 2025, he was added to the list of extremists, as convicted under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, which means that Sergei was tried for the second time in 2025, but this time for participating in the 2020 protests. The sentence is unknown.
Nikolai was found guilty in November 2021 in a criminal case brought for a comment he made in June 2020 about Lukashenko.
According to human rights activists, he was released at the end of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Alexander, a former employee of the Prosecutor General's Office, was found guilty in a criminal case brought under three articles—for insulting Lukashenko, a government official, and a judge—and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in 2023, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Sergei was arrested in August 2021 for displaying a sign reading "Usurper" in a public place and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In November 2021, he was found guilty of slandering Lukashenko and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility.
In the spring of 2023, a court hearing was held to discuss increasing his sentence.
He was released in early 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
In April 2024, it was announced that Sergei had been tried again. According to the charges, on April 7, 2024, he stood with a poster at the entrance to the Miory District Administration building. The exact words on the poster are unknown. At the court hearing on April 10, Sergei confirmed that he had indeed been holding the poster. As a result, he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.
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.
Evgeniy was convicted of calling the police on 102, during which, according to the prosecution, he insulted Lukashenko.
Evgeniy has a severe chronic brain disease that requires mandatory surgical intervention.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2022, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.