Pavel was arrested on December 6, 2021, and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. He was not released after his sentence expired, and on December 21 of that year, he was remanded in pretrial detention on criminal charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in such actions."
In March 2022, Pavel was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
A court hearing on the issue of changing the sentence was held in December 2024. The outcome of the hearing, as well as Pavel's presence, are unknown.
Alexander was arrested on December 16, 2021, in connection with a criminal case involving group actions that grossly violate public order, and in March 2022, he was convicted of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.
Trial outcome 28.03.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Ella was found guilty in December 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Trial outcome 20.12.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility, as well as to compensation for moral damages.
Trial outcome 08.12.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, unknown rubles of compensation.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 in a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" for a comment he allegedly left on the social network Odnoklassniki addressed to riot police officer S.
Trial outcome 24.12.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1200 rubles of compensation.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Police Department, pinning a detained man to the ground with his knee.
Trial outcome 28.12.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1500 rubles of compensation.
Alexey was found guilty in January 2022 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel on November 22, 2021, under a post addressed to Natalia Yarmolinskaya, a district juvenile affairs inspector from Borisov.
Trial outcome 12.01.2022
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Alla was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment she left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Police Department, pinning a young man to the ground with his knee.
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Maria, a Russian citizen, was found guilty in January 2022 of a criminal case brought for insulting Lukashenko, specifically for a comment left in an "extremist" Telegram channel on May 26, 2021. It was related to the emergency landing of a Ryanair flight carrying Roman Protasevich.
Maria left Belarus before she began serving her sentence.
Stanislav was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened following spontaneous protests that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020, against the falsification of the presidential elections.
In January 2022, he was convicted of participating in "mass riots" and sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony. He was accused of intentionally breaking paving slabs while preparing "instruments of crime." He was also charged with causing physical harm, in the form of two wounds to the thumb of Igor Kalyagin's right hand, and "beating" other victims.
He was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Nikita was found guilty of grossly disturbing public order in Minsk in August 2020: on the nights of August 9-10 and August 30. He allegedly blocked traffic, including by "elbow-to-elbowing," thereby stopping it.
He was convicted under the article on insulting the president (Article 368 of the Criminal Code).
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
In April 2025, he was added to the list of extremists, as convicted under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, which means that Sergei was tried for the second time in 2025, but this time for participating in the 2020 protests. The sentence is unknown.
Trial outcome 23.07.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Alexander, a former employee of the Prosecutor General's Office, was found guilty in a criminal case brought under three articles—for insulting Lukashenko, a government official, and a judge—and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in 2023, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 28.12.2021
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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