Andrei was found guilty in July 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a post about police captain Sergei Shramov and about a district police inspector, police captain Alexander Shlupakov.
The Odnoklassniki post was dedicated to how police officers confiscated red-and-white balloons hanging in a local resident's home during a search in the city of Dubrovno, after which he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.
Trial outcome 12.07.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Sergei was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a judge for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding M. Yu. Filatov, a judge of the Lida District Court of the Grodno Region. The comment, according to the prosecution, was offensive and degrading to the honor and dignity of the judge.
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Ivan was found guilty in June 2021 in a criminal case opened under the article on desecration of buildings and damage to property for the application of protest-related graffiti and images.
Denis was found guilty in June 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left about Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs. Volnich, who had used a knee chokehold on a detained participant during the dispersal of a solidarity chain, was holding him in a chokehold.
Trial outcome 25.06.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Marina was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki addressed to Yuri Chernyshkov, an operative of the Drogichin District Police Department. The comment was posted under a post alleging that Chernyshkov had punched and kicked a girl on a square in Drogichin on August 10, 2020, and then "handed her over" to riot police.
Trial outcome 24.06.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Mikhail was found guilty in June 2021 in a criminal case opened for insulting Lukashenko. The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of the case are unknown.
Mikhail was represented at the hearing by a legal representative. Friends of the accused reported that he was already quite elderly.
Evgeny was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on desecration of buildings and damage to property for applying protest-related graffiti and images ("Long Live Belarus!", "3%," and white and red stripes) to three bus stops in Zhodzina.
Trial outcome date unknown
100 basic values fine, 260 rubles of compensation.
Yuri was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on desecration of buildings and damage to property for applying protest-related graffiti and images ("Long Live Belarus!", "3%," and white and red stripes) to three bus stops in Zhodzina.
Trial outcome date unknown
100 basic values fine, 260 rubles of compensation.
Natalia was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding the leadership of the Dubrovensky District Department of Internal Affairs.
Boris was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting Lukashenko. According to the prosecution, on January 14, 2021, he called the police on 102 from his phone and said, "Lukashenko is an idiot. That's all."
Vitaly was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding Svetlogorsk District Police Department traffic police inspector, Major A.V. Bagraenko. According to the prosecution, the comment contained a negative assessment of the "victim."
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Pyotr was found guilty of desecration of state symbols on May 4, 2021, for allegedly damaging a flag on the façade of a grocery store while intoxicated in the village of Bystritsa, Kobrin District. He did so "with the intent to damage the authority of the Republic of Belarus."
According to human rights activists, Pyotr was released in 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Nikolai was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on desecration of state symbols for tearing down a red-and-green flag attached to the facade of the Euroopt store in Brest.
He was released in September 2021, having fully served his sentence.
Nikolai was found guilty in December 2020 of a criminal defamation charge. According to the ruling of Major Petrovich, investigator of the Pinsk Interdistrict Department of the Investigative Committee, Nikolai intentionally posted images of Major Sakovich on the "Pinsk for Life" Telegram channel on two occasions—on August 18 and 20, 2020.
He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Alexander was found guilty of insulting a government official for a comment he left on Facebook about T. O. Pakhomenko, head of the prevention department of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Mogilev. According to the prosecution, the comment contained a negative assessment of the "victim." Alexander was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
In February 2025, a court hearing in absentia was held within the framework of special proceedings on the issue of increasing the severity of the punishment.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 26.02.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).
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