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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.
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.