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Lyudmila was found guilty of insulting a government official for a comment she left on the Telegram channel "Pruzhany/Pruzhana" under a photograph of Ruzhany police officer Dmitry Kazarenko, using the word "cattle." According to the prosecution, she caused him "mental suffering, which manifested itself in personal anguish and the anguish of his loved ones, as well as feelings of bitterness and resentment."
Lyudmila was found guilty in March 2021 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." According to investigators, she "used physical violence against one of the officers—repeatedly grabbing his arms and jacket, pushing him away from the police vehicle, striking him in the back at least three times with her hands, and causing physical pain and battery. She then repeatedly prevented the police vehicle from closing its doors, threw a backpack out of the vehicle, struck the body and windows of the vehicle at least four times, and pressed her hands against the hood of the vehicle, thereby preventing the officers from driving away."
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Elena was found guilty in March 2021 of insulting a government official for her comment, "Small ISIS, a tribunal is just around the corner," addressed to Vitaly Fyodorov, a senior sergeant with the Minsk City Executive Committee's OMON police department, under a Facebook post in which she wrote that he would be happy to kill people. Elena pleaded not guilty at the trial.
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Alevtina, a technical writer and copywriter, was found guilty in April 2021 of a criminal offense under the article on insulting a government official for a comment she left in a Telegram chat: "No one will ever be a bigger slut than Yermoshina."
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Anastasia was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official. According to investigators, on September 3, 2020, she posted an Instagram story insulting Daria Bondarchuk, a member of the Grodno OMON (Special Purpose Police Unit). On December 8, 2020, a group of OMON officers and other security forces arrived at Anastasia's apartment and conducted a search. She was then detained and held for three days in the Grodno temporary detention facility.
Dmitry was found guilty in the spring of 2021 of insulting a government official for posting a text under a collage of police officer Vladislav Shukailo, with the caption "Callsign: Drysh," on the Telegram channel "Punisher of Belarus." An expert examination found the word "drysh" to be offensive and stated that it conveyed a negative connotation.
Konstantin was found guilty of insulting a government official for a comment about traffic police officer Alexander Kirkalov left in the "People's Reporter" group on the VKontakte social network in September 2020.
Sergei was found guilty in May 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left in the Telegram chat "Brest 97%" regarding the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, Nikolai Nikolaevich Karpenkov, which, according to the prosecution, contained a "negative assessment."
Anatoly was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "violence or threat of violence against an internal affairs officer" for, according to the charges, during a protest that took place on Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk on October 4, 2020, "experiencing a sense of revenge, he committed violent acts against OMON officer Zyukin, namely, grabbing his rubber baton and jerking it, thereby causing him physical pain."
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Anatoly was found guilty in May 2021 of participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Minsk. According to the indictment, he joined a group of citizens shouting provocative slogans. Anatoly was also accused of taking sand from a flowerbed and throwing it at Interior Ministry officers.
Daniil was detained on February 19, 2021, on charges of damaging a public transport stop in the agro-town of Bolshiye Radvanichi by writing graffiti. In May 2021, he was convicted under the article "Hooliganism committed by a group of persons." At the time of the incriminated episode, Daniil was a minor. He did not admit guilt.
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According to the Prosecutor General's Office, between July 16 and August 12, 2020, Ivan "while intoxicated posted three videos publicly from his TikTok page to incite social hatred. The material presented in them fostered negative attitudes toward police officers and military command personnel, encouraging violent and aggressive actions."
The Prosecutor General's Office also states that he had previously been convicted 10 times.
Ivan was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "inciting hatred or discord" and sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in 2025, having fully served his sentence.
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Dmitry was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "Desecration of state symbols" for, according to the charges, removing the state flag hanging on the roof of Gymnasium No. 4 in Smorgon one night in the fall of 2020, carefully folding it, putting it in his pocket, and replacing it with a "white-red-white flag."
It's worth noting that the "desecration" of the national flag, according to investigators, consisted of a small tear in the fabric, approximately one and a half centimeters in size. This led investigators to conclude that the flag had been torn down, and they considered this a mockery of the national symbol.
Maxim was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "hooliganism committed by a group of persons" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Evgeny, a car mechanic, was found guilty of insulting a government official on October 19, 2020, for posting the following comment on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" under a photo of Sergei Zhuchkov, deputy commander of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee's OMON special police unit for ideological work and personnel support, in uniform: "Shit, not people."
He was released in June 2024, having fully served his sentence.