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Valery 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.
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Dmitry was arrested in the fall of 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."
In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in a protest that took place on August 10, 2020, in Grodno: his driving near the regional philharmonic and honking at protesters were considered a crime.
He was released in January 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Artyom was detained in November 2021, the day after returning to Belarus. He had arrived for a day to take a work assessment and was detained right in his office. He was charged with "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, Artyom was found guilty of participating in mass protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In March 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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Vitaly was found guilty in December 2021 of the criminal offense of "insulting a government official" for a comment left on VKontakte under a post alleging that Pavel Ermoolenko, a police captain with the Zheleznodorozhny District Department of Internal Affairs in Vitebsk and a patrol company commander, had beaten people. In addition to a suspended sentence, the court ordered the "victim" to pay substantial compensation.
Daniil was found guilty in December 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article "Desecration of State Symbols." According to the charges, "on September 12, 2021, near building No. 21 on Sovetskaya Street, he grabbed the flag with the intent to desecrate the national flag of the Republic of Belarus, expressing an insulting attitude toward state symbols and demonstrating ostentatious courage to those present." According to the prosecution, this caused damage to the state in the amount of 129 rubles.
Dmitry was found guilty in November 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under photographs of police officers Sergei Vladimirovich Shramov and Alexander Leonidovich Shlupakov: "...these officers, risking their lives, confiscated these balloons..."
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Yulia was found guilty in November 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment she left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Police Department, pinning a detainee to the ground with his knee.
Sergei was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," for his participation in post-election protests that took place in Minsk in 2020. The criminal case was initiated following photographs in which Sergei was identified by operatives during social media monitoring.
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Anastasia, a former MSLU student who was expelled for participating in the 2020 protests in Minsk, 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 remanded in custody pending trial.
In March 2022, she was found guilty of participating in a "linkage" at one of the protests and was sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open correctional facility.
She 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.
Nikolai was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Daniil was arrested in June 2021 on charges of attacking the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Institute.
In December 2021, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord" and "act of terrorism." According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he, "having succumbed to radical calls in these communities, made a Molotov cocktail according to instructions published online and threw it at the building." The court sentenced Daniil to mandatory security measures and treatment in the form of compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital with enhanced supervision.
In February 2025, a court hearing was held regarding the modification of compulsory security and treatment measures. The outcome of the hearing is unknown.
Sergei was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the articles "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and "insulting a government official." The case stemmed from a comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki about a police officer.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Daniil was arrested on November 22, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened for insulting Lukashenko and remanded in custody pending trial.
In January 2022, he was convicted for a comment left on Instagram about Lukashenko and sentenced to restricted freedom in 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 imprisonment in a penal colony.
Dmitry was found guilty on September 3, 2021, of "desecration of state symbols" for tearing down two state flags in June 2021: one from a Euroopt store building and one from a kindergarten in the Zavodskoy District of Minsk. He was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility, and he began serving his sentence in late September.
In January 2022, Dmitry was convicted again of "insulting a government official" for a comment left under a photograph of Interior Ministry spokesperson Olga Chemodanova. The final sentence was determined by combining the lesser sentence with the more severe one.
He was released in August 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Ruslan was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." In November of that year, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in Minsk in September 2020.
He was released in February 2024, having fully served his sentence.