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Pavel was convicted of "desecration of state symbols." According to the prosecution, he tore a state flag from a store building, then began waving it, hitting the flagpole against the building's parapet, causing it to break. He then threw the flagpole, its torn flag, into a puddle and walked on it.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Yuri was first found guilty in July 2021 of a criminal offense under the article "insulting a government official." According to the charges, on January 12, 2021, he left an offensive comment under a photograph of police officer Anton Yanushkevich on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus." Furthermore, on March 5, 2021, Yuri left another offensive comment under a photograph of OMON commander Dmitry Balaba on the Telegram channel "Belarus of the Brain."
In November 2021, Yuri was convicted again of "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open correctional facility. He began serving his sentence in March 2022.
In December 2022, Yuri was placed in pretrial detention on a new criminal case opened under three articles, including "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." On December 23 of that year, he was found guilty for the third time and finally sentenced to five years of restricted freedom.
He was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, on March 19 (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Dmitry was convicted in the fall of 2021 on charges of "desecration of state symbols." He was accused of tearing a flag from a building, tearing it, throwing it in a trash can, and breaking the flagpole.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Alexander was found guilty in November 2021 of a criminal offense brought against him for insulting Lukashenko. The indictment states that Alexander used the internet to leave an offensive comment, using obscene language, directed at Lukashenko under a post in the "Last Bell" group on the social network VKontakte.
According to his mother, her son is a Lukashenko supporter, has always voted for him, and called for all protesters to be jailed. She added that Alexander has been under psychiatric care since birth and is a lifelong Group 2 disabled person.
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Anton was found guilty in October 2021 of insulting a government official. The charges stemmed from a comment he left under a post on the social media account of political prisoner Pyotr Zinevich, referring to the acting commander of the Minsk OMON unit, Warrant Officer Yevgeny Savich.
Anton had approximately eight months of house arrest remaining. However, due to alleged violations of the terms of his sentence, on April 11, 2023, his sentence was increased and he was sentenced to four months in a penal colony. He was remanded in custody after the trial.
He was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Natalia was found guilty in November 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social network Odnoklassniki about the senior district police inspector of the Bobruisk Department of Internal Affairs, Police Captain Andrei Komar.
Oleg was found guilty in November 2021 of insulting a government official. The case was prompted by a comment posted in the "Belarusian Prison" group on the social network VKontakte, which included the phrase "ghoul, half-captain" referring to Igor Petrov, the head of the special prison corrections department at Penal Colony No. 1 of the UDIN in the Vitebsk Region.
When asked by the state prosecutor whether he knew the victim, Oleg answered in the affirmative, explaining that he had known the victim since he was serving his prison sentence in Correctional Colony No. 1 in Novopolotsk.
In November 2022, a court hearing was held to discuss the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with a non-custodial sentence. The outcome of the hearing is unknown.
Alexey was found guilty in October 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social media site Odnoklassniki about Andrei Komar, a senior district police officer in Bobruisk.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Vasily was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social network Odnoklassniki under photographs of police officers Sergei Vladimirovich Shramov and Alexander Leonidovich Shlupakov.
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Natalia was found guilty in October 2021 in a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official.
According to the indictment, on June 13, 2021, she left the comment "What a fat face" under a post in the "Sasha Belousov" community on the social network Odnoklassniki, which featured a photo of Dmitry Vishnevsky, head of the Orsha District Department of Internal Affairs, and the caption "accomplice of the fascist regime."
Natalya explained in court that she did not consider her comment offensive, since Dostoevsky had a literary expression, “a shiny fat mug.”
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Viktor was convicted in October 2021 of insulting a government official. He was found guilty of insulting Olga Chemodanova, then the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in a Telegram channel designated as extremist.
Valery was found guilty in September 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social network Odnoklassniki, in which, according to the prosecution, he publicly insulted police officer Manaev.
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Irina was found guilty in September 2021 in a criminal case opened for insulting police officers on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus." The victims in the case were S.A. Sukhorukov, Deputy Head of the Novobelitsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Gomel, and Sergei Malinovsky, a serviceman from military unit No. 10091. The comments themselves were not made public in court.
Viktor was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social network Odnoklassniki under a video showing traffic police detaining people.
Alexander was found guilty in September 2021 of a criminal offense under the article on insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social network Odnoklassniki about Andrei Komar, a senior district police officer in Bobruisk.