Person involved in the "case of round dances". An orphan, parents are deprived of parental rights. He was brought up in the Kobrin children's village.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom .
Two criminal cases were initiated against Andrey: under article 361 of the Criminal Code (“Calls for actions damaging national security”) and under article 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting the president). The case for insulting the president was initiated after Andriy's interview dated March 29, 2021, which, according to the prosecutor's office, contained calls for protests on his behalf, as well as language and expressions publicly insulting the president.
Andrei's wife, activist Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk, is in custody on a criminal case of violence against police officers, insulting the president and officials. There are two children in the family.
Andrey Sharendo has been under house arrest since May 31.
A resident of Orsha, has two minor children. Convicted under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). He was found guilty of insulting the head of the Orsha Inspectorate for Juvenile Affairs Vishnevsky in a comment in the chat "Orsha 97%" in a telegram. On September 15, 21, he was pardoned.
| 01.06.2021 | I am registered as prone to extremist and other destructive activities |
Sentenced to 1.5 years of restriction of freedom with direction to an open type correctional facility
Aliaksandr was accused of trying to drive a car over two employees of the Volkovysk police in order to interfere with their work during an unauthorized event on August 9 after 11 pm. At the end of March, the Volkovysk district court sentenced Potapovich to 2 years and 6 months of “chemistry”. But the state prosecutor decided to challenge the verdict of the court of first instance, and on June 1, the Grodno regional court made a new decision to replace the sentence with 2 years and 6 months in prison.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
2. 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
According to the prosecution, Sinkevich, in the period from August 31 to October 30, 2020, being the administrator of the Minsk. Road closure. Chat”, posted articles in it with instructions for blocking traffic. In addition, according to the public prosecutor, he was engaged in the search for persons for illegal actions and directly supervised them.
According to estimates by human rights activists, in the summer of 2022, he fully served his sentence.
2 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Vyacheslav Ulasevich was found guilty of the fact that on April 3, 2021, at about 5.25-5.26 in the morning, he removed the flag from the building on Lenin Street while intoxicated. After that, he carried it for some distance and threw it on the ground, which caused the shaft to break into three parts and the cloth was damaged: the damage in the amount of 2 rubles 44 kopecks was fully compensated by the accused.
1 year restriction of freedom with a referral. Released on June 9, 2022 after the expiration of his sentence.
Activist from Gomel. He was arrested on May 28th. The police searched his apartment. Released on July 18, 2022 after the expiration of the sentence.
Activist from Gomel. Security forces conducted a search in his apartment, where he lives with his parents. Before this, Stanislav Mochalov was arrested three times under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus for participating in rallies. Stanislav was accused of participating in a hitch at the Solidarity March on September 20 in Gomel. He refused to sign a petition for pardon and defends his rights, even in difficult conditions of imprisonment, despite health problems. Stanislav was left without care for a minor daughter and elderly parents, his father is disabled.
On December 30, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
3 years in prison.
According to the case file, on December 17, 2020, Yarosh, using his mobile phone, "posted an offensive message in one of the Telegram channels . It contained a clearly negative assessment of the personality of the head of state."
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
He was convicted for having made a record containing information of an offensive nature with his own hand: “There are no complaints. I don’t understand the staff of your gas station supporting the regime of the usurper Lukashenka.”
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Ruslan was accused of distributing leaflets in the city by posting them, which contained “knowingly false” information that slandered the police officers.
On May 4, 2023, he was released under an amnesty, 3 weeks before the end of his term.
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
Detained on April 14, 2021 at the border with Lithuania. He is accused of insulting Balaba, the commander of the Minsk OMON, in the “Vitebsk_South” chat.
On November 7, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
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| 01.07.2021 | Dropped out of SIZO-2, return letter marked |
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
was detained on September 9, 2020 near the station. m. "Pushkinskaya" in Minsk for putting the inscription "Let's not forget" on the sidewalk.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
A 53-year-old resident of Pruzhany, convicted of insulting the president. She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
1 year in prison .
Resident of Krasnopolye (Mogilev region), fourth-year student of the Gomel State Technical University. Convicted of insulting the president.
On September 25, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
| 30.08.2021 | Postponed consideration of the replacement of punishment until the end of the term |
| 30.08.2021 | They have not removed the violation for not shaving for five months, although there are reports of encouragement |
| 30.08.2021 | At the commission on the replacement of punishment, the entire administration refused to transfer to home chemistry |
| 29.08.2021 | Do not remove from prof. Accounting for half a year |
| 30.05.2021 | Registered as an extremist |
1.5 years of restriction of freedom .
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