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On October 17, 2021, Alla called 102 on her home phone and uttered obscene language toward Lukashenko, after which she was taken into custody pending trial.
In December 2021, Alla was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility. She was released from custody on her own recognizance not to leave the area until the sentence was final.
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Natalia has been participating in peaceful protests since August 2020. She has been detained and fined three times, as she has a second-degree disability due to epilepsy.
In March 2021, she was summoned to the Frunzensky District Department of Internal Affairs, where she was threatened with criminal charges. Natalia managed to record the incident on a voice recorder. Following this, she was placed under surveillance, and in May 2021, her residence was searched and she was charged with "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in such actions" and "participation in mass riots."
Natalia was forced to leave the country on an urgent basis.
A resident of Vitebsk.
The girl was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Incitement of Social Hatred) for transmitting data on security officials, teachers, and judges to the Telegram channel "Black Book of Belarus."
She was released in April 2026 after completing her sentence.
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Elena was an election observer in August 2020. She was arrested on December 9, 2021, as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
In the spring of 2022, Elena was found guilty, allegedly for participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.
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Lilia, a member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council, a renowned lawyer and international mediator, and a partner and director of the law firm Vlasova, Mikhel & Partners, was detained on August 31, 2020, by officers of the State Control Committee's Department of Financial Investigations on charges of "large-scale tax evasion" and placed in pretrial detention.
On October 19, 2020, Lilia's pre-trial detention was changed and she was placed under house arrest.
On October 23, 2020, the house arrest was lifted.
Elena, a former member of the initiative group and personal assistant to presidential candidate Viktor Babariko, was detained by officers of the State Control Committee's Department of Financial Investigations in July 2020 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "tax evasion on an especially large scale" and placed in a KGB pretrial detention facility.
The arrests began after Viktor Babariko, the former head of Belgazprombank, announced his intention to run for president of Belarus.
Released in September 2020 on bail.
Marina was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Anastasia was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Olga was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Ekaterina was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Olga was arrested on November 30, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, she was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Molodechno and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in August 2022, having fully served her sentence.
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Anastasia was detained along with her mother in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was placed in pretrial detention.
In March 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to a term of imprisonment without being sent to an open correctional facility, and was released in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.
On September 20, 2023, Anastasia fully served her sentence of restricted freedom.
Olga was detained on November 22, 2021, at her workplace at the Ostrov Chistoty store. She was released that evening, but was detained again the following day and placed in pretrial detention.
In April 2022, Olga was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "desecration of buildings and damage to property," and was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
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Olga, a volunteer of the PSO "Angel", was detained and convicted for installing a scarecrow, which, according to investigators, resembled Lukashenko, in the district center on Varshavskoe Shosse.
Darya was found guilty in January 2021 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" for damaging the jacket of police officer Alexei Goryunov during a protest in Brest in the fall of 2020.