Vitaly was accused of writing a single Telegram comment in the "Lukhtovikings" chat about Nikolai Karpenkov (in 2020, Karpenkov served as the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, and in late 2020, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs). Karpenkov is widely known for breaking the only storefront window in Minsk during the 2020 protests.
Trial outcome 11.07.2023
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 50 basic values fine.
It is known that the man was tried for actions during the referendum in 2022 and the administration of the telegram channel of the Military Academy of Belarus.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 10.07.2023:
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Tatyana was detained during a "grabber" in Dzerzhinsk in early April and placed in custody. She and her husband were identified from a group photo from a protest in 2020.
As stated in the court order, the surrender was written by Elena voluntarily on 04/04/2023. The woman was accused of taking part in a protest rally in Minsk on October 25, 2020 and going out onto the roadway. Elena was identified from photographs from the protest found on the Internet. Before the trial, the woman was on bail in the amount of 37,000 rubles. Elena fully admitted her guilt and repented of her deed.
Elena Milaeva has a higher education, she is raising a minor child. She worked as an economist in an open joint-stock company.
Trial outcome 06.07.2023:
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral.
Oleg was tried for having painted several walls in the entrance of a multi-story building in February 2023. The inscriptions contained insults to A. Lukashenko.
Kardash was detained for the first time in March 2023. He was tried three times under administrative articles. Each time, he was sentenced to "24 hours." The first trial took place on March 9, 2023, because a video from August 2020 with the TUT.BY logo was found on the man's Odnoklassniki social network. The second trial took place on March 17, because cutting boards with "an image of a dog in a helmet with the SS emblem, a board with an image of a man in a helmet with the SS emblem" were found at the man's home - that is, Kardash allegedly "stored items with Nazi symbols for the purpose of distribution." The third trial took place on March 29 because he shared a video on the Odnoklassniki social network: the video had the Nexta logo (there was a brutal suppression of the Minsk protests that took place on the night of August 9-10, 2020). Kardash shared this video on August 14, 2020.
On September 12, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
He was detained on March 10, 2023, according to the pro-government media, video and photos from the marches were found in the confiscated computer of Sergei.
On June 13, 2023, the trial took place.
Trial outcome 13.06.2023:
unknown years of restriction of liberty without referral
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