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Renata was detained on November 1, 2020, at a protest in Minsk. A criminal case was subsequently opened against her for "organizing or actively participating in group actions that grossly violate public order." She was detained again while attempting to cross the border and placed in pretrial detention pending trial.
In January 2021, Renata was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom.
Yulia was detained and convicted for installing a scarecrow, which, according to investigators, resembled Lukashenko, in the regional center on Varshavskoe Shosse.
In November 2024, a court hearing was held regarding Yulia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Olga, an activist of the Country for Life project and a member of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s initiative group, took part in protests after the presidential elections and was repeatedly detained.
On November 15, 2020, she was detained in the courtyard of the "Square of Changes", where peaceful protesters gathered for a rally in memory of Roman Bondarenko, killed by security forces, under the slogan "I'm coming out". After that, a criminal case was opened against Olga.
In February 2021, she was convicted of “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.” She left Belarus some time later.
In October 2024, a court hearing was held in absentia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Stanislav, a Ukrainian citizen, was arrested in May 2021 as part of a criminal case opened following the spontaneous protests that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020, against election fraud. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
He was released in June 2025, having fully served his sentence, and was forcibly deported to Latvia with a ban on entry to Belarus for a period of five years.
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Retired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Graduated from Masherov Voronezh State University.
He was charged under Articles 342, 368, and 369 of the Criminal Code. He remains in custody during the trial.
Yakov is interested in journalism, physics, religion, philosophy, and cars.
According to human rights activists, he was released on June 12, 2023.
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Sergei was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a photograph of Senior Lieutenant Igor Volnich, a traffic police inspector from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs. According to the indictment, he publicly insulted a government official under special state protection due to the performance of his official duties.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Valery was found guilty of insulting Lukashenko and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility.
He was released in October 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Diana was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting Lukashenko" for a comment she left in the Telegram group "Klichev-chat." The court sentenced her to a two-year suspended prison sentence.
Andrei was found guilty of several criminal charges, including "insulting a government official," for tagging several posts containing "offensive" statements on the social network Odnoklassniki with a "like."
He was released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Vitaly was found guilty in October 2021 of insulting an official and threatening to use violence against an Interior Ministry employee. The charges stemmed from a comment left on the Telegram channel "Strong News" in late August 2020, addressed to Lieutenant Colonel and Military Commissar Krivonosov.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2025, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Sergei was arrested in March 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "intentional destruction of a vehicle or communication lines," and in October of that year, he was convicted of installing metal threads, wire, and other similar objects on railway tracks.
During the trial, he admitted guilt in only one incident, committed under personal circumstances—the loss of his child: he drove into the forest and short-circuited a track circuit using a wire. He pleaded not guilty to the other incidents, claiming he had incriminated himself during the investigation.
He was released in October 2023, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
Alexander was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on VKontakte under a post about how police officers Sergei Vladimirovich Shramov and Alexander Leonidovich Shlupakov "sacrificed their lives" while removing white-red-white balloons.
Alexander was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a photograph of Drogichin District Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (OBEP) detective Yuri Chernyshkov. Chernyshkov claimed that on August 10, 2020, the officer had punched and kicked a young woman in a public square and then handed her over to a riot police officer.
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Vadim was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for comments left on the social network VKontakte in February 2021 under photographs of police officers Alexander Leonidovich Shlupakov and Sergei Vladimirovich Shramov.
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Ekaterina was accused in October 2021 of insulting a government official—Taratenko, an employee of the Frunzensky District Prosecutor's Office in Minsk.