All persecuted

Alexander was accused of leaving a one-word comment—"Scum"—on the social media site Odnoklassniki in August 2020, under a post about traffic police inspector Andrei Bagrayenok participating in the dispersal of peaceful assemblies and issuing fines for honking solidarity horns.

In September 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Roman was found guilty of three criminal charges for comments left in the "Senica" chat and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Vyacheslav was found guilty of damaging property and causing damage in the amount of 10 rubles 34 kopecks for painting a school fence, a kiosk, poles, and trees in a village on the outskirts of Mogilev with white and red stripes in December 2020.

He was released in the fall of 2021, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Ekaterina, an accountant for the BelaPAN news agency, was detained on August 18, 2021, following a search and questioning by the Investigative Committee and placed in pretrial detention for 72 hours as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing or preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or participating in them."

On August 28, 2021, Ekaterina was released on bail.

Irina, editor-in-chief and director of the BelaPAN news agency, was detained on August 18, 2021, following searches of her home and the agency's offices, as well as an interrogation. She was initially placed in pretrial detention for 72 hours as part of a criminal case under the article "organizing or preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or participating in them." However, she was not released and was transferred to a pretrial detention center 10 days later. The charge was later amended to tax evasion.

In November 2021, it was revealed that Irina had also been charged with "creating an extremist group." In October 2022, she was found guilty of "participating in an extremist group," sentenced to imprisonment, and banned from holding certain positions for five years.

Irina was released in December 2024, having fully served her sentence imposed by the court.

Sergei was convicted in August 2021 of insulting Lukashenko and sentenced to prison in a penal colony for posting an audio recording on his personal VKontakte page, reading "Lukashenko, go away."

According to human rights activists, he was released in August 2022, having fully served his sentence.

Anna, a prominent activist who supported Viktor Babaryka, was arrested on July 26, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened for defamation against Lukashenko. In November of that year, she was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

According to human rights activists, she was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served her sentence.

Maxim was arrested in April 2021 and later convicted for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Minsk in August 2020. According to the charges, on the night of August 9-10, 2020, he was on Masherov Avenue, joined other protesters, walked onto the roadway, shouted slogans, loudly clapped, waved his arms, and made offensive gestures toward police officers.

In March 2023, Maxim was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Vitaly was convicted for a comment about Lukashenko that investigators deemed offensive and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

In June 2022, he was placed in solitary confinement twice: the first time for five days, after which he was transferred to a new unit for "malicious violators of the regime," and a few days later for ten days. In July of that year, it was announced that Vitaly had been transferred to a cell-type facility for five months, remaining on his sentence.

He was released in December 2022, having fully served his sentence.

After his release, Vitaly left Belarus because, when he was registered, the first deputy head of the Kobrin District Department of Internal Affairs, Alexander Kosyak, threatened that next time he would be imprisoned with his wife.

In November 2023, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Vitaly for “assisting extremist activity.”

Igor, the former Belarusian ambassador to Slovakia, condemned the violence against the Belarusian people and protesters following the undemocratic presidential elections in August 2020 and participated in various socio-political initiatives.

On August 11, 2021, he was detained and placed in a temporary detention facility as part of a criminal case under the article "group actions grossly violating public order."

Released on August 20, 2021.

Alexei was detained on February 23, 2021, and held in pretrial detention pending trial. In August 2021, he was convicted of "active participation in group actions that grossly violated public order" for his participation in the post-election protest that took place on September 13, 2020, in Minsk, as well as for attempted theft.

In addition, the Minsktrans company filed a civil claim for damages in the amount of almost 29 thousand rubles.

At the time of his arrest, Alexei had an outstanding criminal record and was serving a restricted-liability sentence without being sent to a correctional facility; he had two months and three days remaining on his sentence.

In November 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Stanislav was convicted of "threatening to kill" RT employee Konstantin Pridybaylo and "inciting ethnic hatred and discord" against Russians. The charges stemmed from his phone call on September 14, 2020, to Pridybaylo at a number published in the "Black Book of Belarus" and the threat he made. He also made statements on internet portals, including the phrase "a good Muscovite is a dead Muscovite."

During the trial, it was reported that Pridybaylo was temporarily transferred to the Russian embassy in Minsk for safety reasons; he attended the trial only on the day of the closing arguments and filed a civil lawsuit for "moral suffering."

In November 2022, Stanislav's prison regime was tightened, and he was transferred from an open-type correctional facility to a penal colony. According to human rights activists, his health, including his vision, deteriorated sharply in prison; doctors diagnosed diabetic retinopathy, treatment for which was interrupted after his transfer to the penal colony.

In May 2024, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Artyom was found guilty of creating an open Telegram channel on January 26, 2021, and posting images of seven Osipovichi District Police Department officers with derogatory comments. In early February 2022, his prison regime was tightened and he was transferred to a penal colony to serve the remainder of his sentence.

In October 2022, Artyom was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

At the end of August 2023, Artyom was convicted under Part 4 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (illegal drug trafficking); he is serving his sentence in Correctional Colony No. 20.

Alexander was serving a restricted freedom sentence for malicious hooliganism unrelated to politics and left offensive comments on an "extremist" Telegram channel under photographs of a prosecutor and a police officer from Minsk.

In August 2021, he was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of restricted freedom, to which the remaining term from the previous sentence was added, bringing the total sentence to 2 years and 8 months of "chemistry."

At the end of April 2022, the sentence was changed to imprisonment in a penal colony after four penalties for violating the conditions of detention in a correctional facility.

In April 2023, Alexander was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Yuri was found guilty of leaving a comment on social media on March 1, 2021, intending to publicly insult Lukashenko. The expert examination found it derogatory and negative toward Lukashenko: "A vile creature cannot be king, a Lucifer in human form..."

At the end of January 2023, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.