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Lyudmila was found guilty of insulting a government official for a comment she left on the Telegram channel "Pruzhany/Pruzhana" under a photograph of Ruzhany police officer Dmitry Kazarenko, using the word "cattle." According to the prosecution, she caused him "mental suffering, which manifested itself in personal anguish and the anguish of his loved ones, as well as feelings of bitterness and resentment."
Lyudmila was found guilty in March 2021 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." According to investigators, she "used physical violence against one of the officers—repeatedly grabbing his arms and jacket, pushing him away from the police vehicle, striking him in the back at least three times with her hands, and causing physical pain and battery. She then repeatedly prevented the police vehicle from closing its doors, threw a backpack out of the vehicle, struck the body and windows of the vehicle at least four times, and pressed her hands against the hood of the vehicle, thereby preventing the officers from driving away."
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Elena was found guilty in March 2021 of insulting a government official for her comment, "Small ISIS, a tribunal is just around the corner," addressed to Vitaly Fyodorov, a senior sergeant with the Minsk City Executive Committee's OMON police department, under a Facebook post in which she wrote that he would be happy to kill people. Elena pleaded not guilty at the trial.
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Alevtina, a technical writer and copywriter, was found guilty in April 2021 of a criminal offense under the article on insulting a government official for a comment she left in a Telegram chat: "No one will ever be a bigger slut than Yermoshina."
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Anastasia was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official. According to investigators, on September 3, 2020, she posted an Instagram story insulting Daria Bondarchuk, a member of the Grodno OMON (Special Purpose Police Unit). On December 8, 2020, a group of OMON officers and other security forces arrived at Anastasia's apartment and conducted a search. She was then detained and held for three days in the Grodno temporary detention facility.
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Ekaterina was found guilty in 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a judge" for publishing a comment containing obscene language directed at Judge Poleshchuk.
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.
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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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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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.
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.