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A resident of Minsk. Father of 6 children: 4 boys and 2 girls, aged from 1 to 16 years.
Detained on December 7, 2021 for participating in protests on August 10, 2020 near a supermarket in «Riga», was identified on video. Convicted on June 16, 2022.
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Olga, a volunteer of the PSO "Angel", was detained and convicted for installing a scarecrow, which, according to investigators, resembled Lukashenko, in the district center on Varshavskoe Shosse.
Darya was found guilty in January 2021 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" for damaging the jacket of police officer Alexei Goryunov during a protest in Brest in the fall of 2020.
In December 2021, Andrei was found guilty of insulting Vladimir Kozlovsky, a police officer from Grodno who fell during a brawl on May 29, 2020, at a picket to collect signatures for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's nomination as a presidential candidate.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In December 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.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a post about Andrei Komar, a senior police officer at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs. He was taken into custody in the courtroom immediately after the verdict was announced.
According to human rights activists, he was released in March 2024, having fully served his sentence.
According to the indictment, the man participated in the Unity March, which took place in Hrodna on September 6, 2020, at 13:20 he stood in a convoy near house No. 10 on Gornovykh Street. Avdik was held in custody from 6 to 16 September in a temporary detention center, then he was transferred to a Grodno prison. Released after expiration of sentence.
Alexander was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "hooliganism" and remanded in custody pending trial.
In December 2021, he was convicted of writing red and white graffiti and declaring his love for presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility.
In June 2022, the court ordered an increase in the sentence, replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment to be served in a penal colony until the end of the sentence.
Alexander was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
After his release, the persecution against Alexander did not stop; he was repeatedly subjected to searches and administrative arrests for “picketing.”
In the summer of 2023, he was placed in pretrial detention on a new criminal case, and in December of that year, he was found guilty of "rehabilitation of Nazism" and "hooliganism," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2026, having fully served his sentence.
Grigory was found guilty in December 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment he left on the social network Odnoklassniki on May 27, 2020, under a post that featured a photo of Komar, a senior district police officer at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs.
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A resident of Vitebsk, he recently worked in the Russian Federation.
Convicted for a comment on the social network Odnoklassniki, which was left on July 2, 2020 under a post about witness testimony in court against the innocent addressed to a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He wrote under the photo: "It's written on his forehead: complete scum."
He was brought to justice in March 2021 for symbols in an administrative case.
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Regina, the founder of the Ivye Museum of National Cultures, was found guilty in September 2021 of "insulting a government official" for comments she left on Telegram addressed to Andrei Erokhin, Deputy Head of the Ivye District Executive Committee's Department of Internal Affairs, and Valery Gorbach, Senior Inspector.
On February 2, 2022, it was reported that she had been arrested for 10 days for violating the rules of her home confinement. While serving her sentence, Regina went on a hunger strike. It was also reported that she had been placed in solitary confinement.
In March 2022, Regina was visited more than 25 times for inspections. She was unable to obtain permission to travel to Lida to purchase craft supplies and was effectively unable to work. Additional restrictions were also announced, including a ban on visiting churches and a number of household restrictions.
After another arrest and being held in a pretrial detention facility under harsh conditions, Regina was forced to leave Belarus.
In December 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding "on replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open-type correctional facility."
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Alexander 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."
In January 2022, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in August 2020 in Minsk and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In December 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with a referral to a correctional facility with imprisonment in a penal colony.
Anastasia was arrested in November 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 placed in pretrial detention pending trial.
In May 2022, she was found guilty of participating in a protest that took place in Minsk in the fall of 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.
In December 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.
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Victoria was detained on November 22, 2021, at her workplace at the Ostrov Chistoty store as part of a criminal case opened 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." She was placed in pretrial detention pending trial.
In April 2022, she was found guilty of participating in a protest that took place on September 20, 2020, in Minsk and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
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Gayane, the mother of anarchist activist Roman Khalilov, was detained on November 26, 2021, after security forces broke down the door of her apartment and conducted a search. She was initially taken to the Polotsk District Police Department, where she was charged with "disobeying police officers" and sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.
It was later revealed that Gayane had become a suspect in a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." She was transported to the temporary detention center on Okrestina Street in Minsk and then placed in a pretrial detention center.
In April 2022, Gayane was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
She left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.
In January 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 with serving the sentence in a penal colony.
Artem was convicted in a criminal case brought under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2022, having fully served his sentence.