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Ruslan was convicted in a criminal case brought under the article "desecration of state symbols" for damaging the state flag and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was released in January 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Andrei was convicted in a criminal case brought under the article "desecration of state symbols" for tearing down the state flag and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was released in July 2022, having fully served his sentence.
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Denis was arrested in October 2021 in connection with 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 December 2021, he was convicted of participating in the "March of Unity" protest that took place on September 6, 2020, in Grodno and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open correctional facility.
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Anastasia was detained along with her mother 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 placed in pretrial detention.
In March 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to a term of imprisonment without being sent to an open correctional facility, and was released in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.
On September 20, 2023, Anastasia fully served her sentence of restricted freedom.
Igor was arrested in December 2021 on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In March 2022, he was found guilty of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
According to human rights activists, he was released in November 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Stanislav was arrested on November 24, 2021, on administrative charges. However, after serving his sentence, he was not released from the temporary detention facility and was transferred to a pretrial detention center for a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in such actions."
In March 2022, he was found guilty of participating in post-election protests that took place in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In February 2025, 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.
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Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a one-word comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki addressed to police officer Voynich.
Alexander has a third-degree disability and, at the time of the trial, was caring for his nearly blind 83-year-old father. Shortly before the trial, he refused hospitalization due to a pre-stroke condition, as he wanted to attend the court hearing in person. Nevertheless, the court sentenced him to restricted freedom and ordered him to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victim."
Andrei was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on TikTok about Sergei Lovchy, a juvenile affairs inspector, and Alexander Yesyulevich, a district police officer.
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Yuri was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki about Andrei Komar, a senior district police inspector at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs, under a post about the events at Sergei Tikhanovsky's picket.
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Evgeny, a Russian citizen, was arrested and convicted on charges of "desecration of state symbols" for removing the flag of the Republic of Belarus, along with its flagpole, from the wall of the Ostrovets District Executive Committee's Labor and Social Protection Department, and taking it home.
He was released in December 2021, having fully served his sentence.
Leonid, a former employee of the Minsk Tractor Plant, was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for comments he left on Telegram about two riot police officers, Nikolai Yakimyuk and Nikita Saprankov.
Ruslan 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 November 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting social hatred and discord" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Mikhail Lapenas was detained on May 12, 2021. They are accused of insulting Yuri Karayev and calling for riots.
A witness at the trial stated that Mikhail called for participation in the actions, even invited him personally, and that he proposed to create a strike committee.
12/09/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
Roman was found guilty in September 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a video featuring Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, in which he pinned a detainee to the ground with his knee.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Olga was detained on November 22, 2021, at her workplace at the Ostrov Chistoty store. She was released that evening, but was detained again the following day and placed in pretrial detention.
In April 2022, Olga was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "desecration of buildings and damage to property," and was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.