Well-known translator and English teacher Olga was detained on January 15, 2021 and convicted for allegedly hitting STV employee Grigory Azarenok during one of the protests in Minsk.
Yaroslav was detained on September 25, 2020, on charges of participating in a protest on the night of August 10-11, 2020, near the Riga shopping center in Minsk. He was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." The court also ordered the confiscation of his personal car to the state, considering it a means of committing a crime.
In January 2022, he was pardoned: his sentence was replaced with “house arrest”.
Roman was detained in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place on September 13, 2020 in Brest, where people sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them. He was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." According to the prosecution, the downtime of the trolleybus and bus depots caused damage in the amount of about 660 Belarusian rubles.
Trial outcome 08.06.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, unknown rubles of compensation.
Vadim was detained and convicted for breaking the window of a bus carrying police officers during a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Bereza.
In September 2021, he was pardoned: his sentence was replaced with “house arrest”.
Trial outcome 28.01.2021
1 year restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 270 rubles of compensation.
On the night of August 10-11, 2020, Alexandra was detained in Minsk. She went out to help people who had suffered from the actions of security forces, but was faced with shelling and mass detentions. Alexandra spent three days in the Okrestina detention center, where she was tortured, including beatings and threats of sexual violence. She was then released, but on October 16, 2020, she was arrested again as part of a criminal case, accused of participating in "group actions that grossly violate public order."
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