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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.
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Sergei, a pensioner suffering from cancer, was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on social media under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs.
Despite Sergei claiming he wasn't politically active and spent most of his time at his dacha, and that he'd left the comment accidentally because the button under the post had jammed, he was sentenced to restricted freedom and ordered to pay moral damages and cover government costs.
Nikolai was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on VKontakte under a post in the "Nexta" group about a driver for the Brest Regional Executive Committee's Special Purpose Police Department, Senior Sergeant Shukailo.
He was released in July 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Andrei, a deputy production director, was arrested in May 2021 on charges of participating in a post-election protest that took place on November 1, 2020, in Minsk.
In October 2021, he was convicted of participating in the organization of protests for posting a video of security forces' special equipment moving along Independence Avenue, along with a message listing its name, to the Telegram channels "Nexta" and "Nexta Live." He was also found guilty of "illegal drug trafficking without intent to sell," as approximately two grams of marijuana were found during a search of his person, which he voluntarily surrendered to law enforcement officers.
He was released in September 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Anna was arrested in October 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened following a protest on September 13, 2020, in Brest, where people were singing and dancing in circles and were attacked with a water cannon. She was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
Anna was released in February 2023, having fully served her sentence.
Yuri was convicted of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on a social network under a photograph of a police officer.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Alexander worked for the Ministry of Emergency Situations for over 15 years. Before his arrest, he was a squad commander at Unit No. 7 in Grodno. He was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. Alexander was subsequently fired and ordered to pay seven thousand Belarusian rubles in compensation under his contract.
In August 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord" and "insulting a government official," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
He was released in October 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Alexander was found guilty in October 2021 of criminal charges of "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko" for comments left on Telegram channels deemed extremist.
He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Vladimir was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on a Telegram channel about a police officer.
In the spring of 2021, a court hearing was held to discuss the issue of increasing the prison sentence, which resulted in Vladimir being transferred from an open-type correctional facility to a penal colony that summer.
He was released in September 2022, having fully served his sentence.
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Mikhail was convicted of slander and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open-type institution.
In November 2021, it was announced that a new criminal case had been opened against Mikhail for "inciting hatred or discord." The exact grounds for the case are unknown.
On November 26, 2021, Mikhail managed to leave Belarus.