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Sergei was arrested in August 2021 for displaying a sign reading "Usurper" in a public place and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In November 2021, he was found guilty of slandering Lukashenko and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility.
In the spring of 2023, a court hearing was held to discuss increasing his sentence.
He was released in early 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
In April 2024, it was announced that Sergei had been tried again. According to the charges, on April 7, 2024, he stood with a poster at the entrance to the Miory District Administration building. The exact words on the poster are unknown. At the court hearing on April 10, Sergei confirmed that he had indeed been holding the poster. As a result, he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.
Natalia was arrested in December 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under articles for insulting a government official and Lukashenko.
In June 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.
In November 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
Evgeniy was convicted of calling the police on 102, during which, according to the prosecution, he insulted Lukashenko.
Evgeniy has a severe chronic brain disease that requires mandatory surgical intervention.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2022, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Anton, a conscript, was found guilty in December 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and sentenced to three months in the guardhouse.
According to the prosecution, Anton participated in unauthorized public events on Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk from August 10 to 11, 2020, and walked onto the roadway. Photographs he posted on his social media page served as evidence of his guilt.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," for participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 10, 2020, in Minsk, where he and his friends stood in a chain of vehicles.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Anton was found guilty in December 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," for participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 10, 2020, in Minsk, where he and his friends stood in a chain of vehicles.
In August 2022, Anton was convicted of a traffic violation, resulting in his prison sentence being increased to four years.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Svetlana, a leading client relations specialist at A1, was arrested in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." She was first detained in a temporary detention facility and later in a pretrial detention center.
In March 2022, the court found her guilty and sentenced her to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility and to pay a fine.
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Svetlana, deputy director of Minsk Gymnasium No. 42, was detained in December 2021 along with her daughter, Yana, as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." They were first detained in a temporary detention facility and later in a pretrial detention center.
In April 2022, she was found guilty of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Yana was detained in December 2021 along with her mother, Svetlana, in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." She was first held in a temporary detention facility and later in a pretrial detention center.
In April 2022, she was found guilty of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
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Sergei was arrested in November 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "Act of Terrorism"—according to investigators, for disabling railway tracks. He was later finally charged under two articles of the Criminal Code: "Participation in actions grossly violating public order" and "Preparation for participation in mass riots."
In July 2022, Sergei was found guilty of calling for active participation in and participating in the 2020 post-election protests in Minsk, including incidents of "road blocking." Investigators also alleged that he received telescopic batons, stun guns, and instructions on sabotaging the railway from the administrators of the "OGSB" Telegram chat.
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2026, having fully served his sentence.
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Anton, a master of sports in gorodki and multiple winner and prize winner of national and international competitions, was arrested in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Molodechno and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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An activist from the European Belarus movement was detained on December 30, 2021, in connection with a criminal case alleging group actions that grossly violated public order.
On January 7, 2022, the woman was transferred to a pre-trial detention facility.
Elena has a little son.
In January 2023, Elena was transferred to Gomel Women's Colony No. 4. For a long time, a lawyer was unable to see the political prisoner; she was placed in solitary confinement.
In October 2023, it became known that Elena's package had not been accepted in August. This likely indicates that she had been deprived of her packages. The last letter from Elena arrived in early September, and no letters have been received since. Since Lazarchik's transfer to the penal colony, the prison administration has not granted permission to meet with a lawyer. Elena's current situation and her current condition are unknown. Elena is experiencing dental problems in the colony and has lost weight.
In mid-November 2023, human rights activists learned that Elena had been placed in solitary confinement again.
According to the testimony of the former political prisoner, Elena served more than 90 days in a punishment cell and more than 60 days in a PKT .
In the spring of 2025, Elena was convicted under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the lawful demands of the prison administration) and sentenced to an additional eighteen months in prison in addition to her eight years in prison. The date of the sentence is unknown. It is known that Elena refused legal representation at her trial.
On September 16, 2026, she was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
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Matvey was arrested in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In March 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
He was released in January 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Alexander was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In January 2022, he was found guilty of insulting a government official and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Svetlana was found guilty in January 2022 of the criminal offense of "insulting a government official" for a comment left on February 18, 2021, in the "Dvizh" group on the social network VKontakte under a post about how police officers Sergei Vladimirovich Shramov and Alexander Leonidovich Shlupakov "sacrificed their lives" in removing white-red-white balloons.
It is known that Svetlana had undergone surgery to remove a brain tumor and was undergoing complex rehabilitation at the time of the trial. Despite this, she was sentenced to restricted freedom and ordered to pay compensation to the "victims."