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Marina was found guilty in December 2020 in a criminal case opened under the article "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." The case concerned the events of August 9, 2020. At that time, Marina, a pharmacist, was detained and brutally beaten by two riot police officers, Daria Bondarchuk and Maria Mazurkevich. However, the criminal case was specifically opened against Marina. While being physically choked, Marina instinctively bit the hand of one of the police officers.
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Yuri was found guilty in December 2020 in a criminal case for posting images on the social network VKontakte that, according to the prosecution, "contained a negative assessment of Lukashenko."
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Svyatoslav was found guilty in December 2020 of resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order. He was accused of resisting arrest on September 17, 2020, during a solidarity chain in Minsk when he attempted to join the protesters carrying the Russian flag. He was subsequently beaten by riot police. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was taken from the Pervomaisky District Police Department to intensive care, then to the surgical ward, where police officers placed him in custody and handcuffed him to a hospital bed for 72 hours.
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Vladimir was convicted in December 2020 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." He was accused of "calling for violent actions against police and riot police officers using a sound-amplifying device" on August 21, 2020, at Independence Square near the Lenin monument in Minsk. During his arrest, Vladimir suffered a heart attack, after which he was placed on a third-degree disability.
In the summer of 2023, Vladimir's sentence, imposed by the court, ended.
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Dmitry was convicted for a conflict with traffic police officers during the brutal dispersal of a protest that took place in Grodno on August 13, 2020.
Maxim was found guilty in November 2020 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" for standing up for a girl carrying a white-red-white flag who was being beaten by security forces during the dispersal of a peaceful protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Slonim.
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Yuri was found guilty in November 2020 of a criminal case under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," for participating in a post-election protest on August 11, 2020, in Mozyr, during which he threw stones at a police car. At the time of the protest, his arrest, and the criminal case hearing, Yuri was a minor.
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Sergei was found guilty in November 2020 of a criminal case under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," for participating in a post-election protest on August 11, 2020, in Mozyr, during which he threw stones at a police car. At the time of the protest, his arrest, and the criminal case hearing, Sergei was a minor.
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Sergei was found guilty in October 2020 of "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order." The pensioner was accused of threatening riot police with a knife when they broke down his apartment door after he called the police and asked them to prosecute Lukashenko for insulting Viktor Babaryka. Sergei was shot in the chest with a pump-action shotgun for this.
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Evgeny, a pensioner with a third-degree disability and a two-time stroke survivor, was found guilty in August 2021 of a criminal case brought for insulting Lukashenko. The criminal case was initiated following a call to 911, during which, according to Interior Ministry employee Ovsiyenko, Evgeny "intended to insult Lukashenko and portray him in a humiliating position in the eyes of the general public."
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Sergei was found guilty in August 2021 in a criminal case opened under the articles "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and "insulting a judge" for comments left on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" regarding GUBOPiK officer Alexander Aleksa and Leninsky District Judge Marina Klimchuk.
In September 2024, a court hearing was held in absentia as part of a special proceeding to replace the restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Maxim was found guilty in July 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official." According to the indictment, on March 20, 2021, Maxim left a comment on the Telegram channel "Punisher Belarus" under a post featuring a photo of riot police officer Igor Monakhov, containing the word "s***," with the intent to publicly insult.
Artur was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left in September 2020 on a publication featuring a photograph of Interior Ministry spokesperson Olga Chemodanova.
Ruslan was found guilty in May 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment published on the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel about A.F. Olshevsky, deputy chief and head of the public safety police at the Partizansky District Department of Internal Affairs in Minsk.
Ruslan was found guilty again in September 2021 in a criminal case opened under the article "insulting a government official" for a comment left in October 2020 on the same Telegram channel addressed to Vladimir Kozlovsky, assistant to the head of the Leninsky District Police Department in Grodno, who was allegedly beaten at a campaign picket, after which Sergei Tikhanovsky was detained.
Following the examination of two criminal cases, Ruslan was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility, as well as to pay a large amount of compensation for moral damages.
Victoria was found guilty of "desecration of state symbols." According to investigators, she altered the image of the national emblem and used it as the logo for her Telegram and YouTube channels, as well as in published videos, which, according to investigators, constituted "an act of blasphemy and an attempt to draw attention to her channel."