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36-year-old Oleg Shvaiko worked with the women's team at the Minsk football club. It is known that he expressed an active position regarding the events in Belarus in 2020. At the end of 2021, the coach left the Minsk structure. He was detained on November 4, 2022. After his arrest, he was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest. Oleg was then transferred to a pre-trial detention center as part of a criminal case for participating in the 2020 protests.
According to human rights activists, he was released in July 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Author of the Spadchyna telegram channel, Wikipedia editor and Twitter blogger.
In the pro-government video, Chekhovich says that he is “against the current government and supports Ukraine.”
Released after administrative arrest (13 days).
Dmitry Solovyanchik worked as a courier for Kuprienko's company. A story on a pro-government channel claims that he also filmed a video of the movement of military equipment and passed it on to Kupriyenko, "not knowing what they were for him."
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At the end of July 2024, he was released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years in prison
Before the trial, Vyacheslav was at large, he was detained for three days from September 9 to 12, 2022. He was found guilty of leaving a comment about Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte under his photo on March 1, 2021, the comment consisted of one word: "idiot".
Vyacheslav Ovchuk admitted his guilt. He said that he was outraged by Lukashenko's statement that people who receive salaries in envelopes should be punished. According to the accused, those who issue them should be punished.
According to human rights activists, he was released in mid-January 2025.
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Former employee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Department of Internal Affairs.
The man was accused of collecting information about the private lives and personal data of citizens from the Ministry of Internal Affairs databases from December 2021 to May 2022, which he then "distributed in the Telegram messenger."
In addition to imprisonment, Vladislav was sentenced to a fine of 300 basic units.
08/20/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Elena has been convicted multiple times on politically motivated charges, including "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko" through comments on Telegram channels.
Her first trial took place in December 2022 for "insulting a government official," the outcome of which is unknown. In March 2023, she was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility and a large fine for a comment with an emoji addressed to police captain Ruslan Kutsko.
In April 2024, a new criminal case was heard against Elena under the articles "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko," the verdict for which is also unknown.
In October 2024, she was convicted of "inciting hatred or discord" for comments about Lukashenko, security forces, and participants in the war in Ukraine, and sentenced to imprisonment.
Released in autumn 2025 .
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Alexandra works as a manager at the logistics company Trans Solutions. The reason for the arrest was her photographs on Tinder, where she stands on the road with a white-red-white flag during one of the protest marches in 2020. The publication about the arrest appeared in one of the unofficial telegram channels of security forces. A “repentance” video was shot with the girl, where she confirms her participation in the protests. At first she was placed in a temporary detention facility, then a criminal case was opened against her.
On April 21, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
Grigory returned to Belarus in March 2022, where he was detained. The reason for the return was the mother's illness (cancer was found), and then the cancer was found in the father.
Grigory has not been in Belarus for a year and a half: since the end of November 2020. As he told the court, the reason for his departure was the inability to find a job in his specialty, as well as the need to deal with the documents of his grandmother (a citizen of Ukraine, but there is a Belarusian residence permit).
The man was convicted for participating in protest actions in Brest in 2020 (in the case of round dances).
Anatoly was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. In January 2023, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in January 2025, having fully served his sentence.
According to the prosecution, Gerasimovich desecrated the national flag by pulling the flag by its cloth while intoxicated and throwing it to the ground. After that, the flag was damaged and its staff was destroyed. The property damage to the organization on whose building the flag hung was estimated at 89 rubles - that is how much the accused must pay in compensation.
The man admitted his guilt in full and said that he pulled the flag by accident so as not to fall. He had no intention of desecrating the state symbol of Belarus.
The court considered that if the accused did not admit to intentionally desecrating the flag, he did not fully understand his responsibility and did not repent, so he decided to impose a punishment associated with imprisonment. Although the expert concluded that the accused suffers from chronic alcoholism and needs compulsory treatment.
On 03.03.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Alexey was convicted for insulting comments in the telegram channel towards two representatives of the authorities. As follows from the text of the resolution, one of the tokens in Alexey's comments was: «erysipelas». The man fully admitted his guilt and repented. However, after the verdict was announced, the prosecutor of the Glubokoe district filed an appeal.
The Vitebsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Glubokoe district court and replaced Alexey with two years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility for two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony and a penalty of 1920 BYN.
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Employee of "Brestgazoapparat". He was detained right at the factory, from where he was taken out in handcuffs. Presumably for comments on social networks.
The appeal trial was held on March 3, 2023.
Released in the fall of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
unknown years of imprisonment in the colony
On November 23, 2022, the Gomel Regional Court considered the appeal.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
According to the materials of the prosecution, on January 26, 2021, Gennady Boris, a 55 year old veteran of the war in Afghanistan, posted an image in red and green with a swastika with a national ornament on his page on the social network ok.ru, and on the same day he posted an image of Alexander Lukashenko in a military uniform against the background on his page swastikas.
The next episode of the case concerns July 26, 2022. Gennady Boris posted a text message in ok.ru in which he indicated that «terrorist No. 1 is wanted» and that an amount of one million euros would be collected for his detention. He further writes that 586 000 euros have already been reserved for whoever arrests Lukashenko.
The man admitted his guilt in the deed.