Ivan Leonidovich Ignatenko

Stepan was arrested in connection with the protests in Pinsk on the night of August 9-10, 2020, and convicted of participating in "mass riots." He was accused of attempting to hit police officers, as well as hitting a shield that hit the leg of police officer Polivoda.

At the trial, Stepan explained that he tried to pass by, but was pushed by a shield, he fell, and cut his knee. According to him, the gesture that looked like a throw on the video was actually an attempt to fix his sleeve.

He was released in February 2024, having served his entire sentence as determined by the court.

Former head of the "Akhovy birdie father". He was detained after a search in the Minsk office of the organization on August 31. He was sentenced to 12 days of administrative arrest under the article on disobedience to the police. But after his arrest, he did not go free - he was detained in a criminal case on group actions that grossly violate public order.

On May 12, 2022, the verdict was announced.

09.29.2023 released after expiration of sentence.

A resident of Hrodna, who was detained on May 31, 2021 as part of a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order. He is accused of taking part in a protest against the results of the presidential election on August 10, 2020.

Russian citizen, rapper. Convicted for insulting Lukashenka in the song "Lukashenko, go away." Arrested on January 10, 2021. Most likely released and deported.

According to the charges , on April 2, 2021, intending to publicly insult the deputy prosecutor, he sent an email to the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office. It began with the word "Korenko" and ended with "Bessmertny" and had a negative form of evaluation of the official, represented the "abusive segment". On the same day, intending to publicly insult the first deputy chairman of the district executive committee, he sent a letter to the district executive committee in which he insulted the official. It was aimed at forming a negative image of the government official. The letter began with the word "Lyutinsky" and ended with the words "everything is possible", as well as another letter.

He also violated the terms of his permit to carry a weapon and illegally stored explosives: smoke powder, which is suitable for causing an explosion.

On September 1, 2021, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony : 2.5 years of restriction of the penal colony without referral to a correctional facility - "house chemistry" - under Article 369 and three years of imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony - under Part 2 of Article 295.

He is expected to be released at the end of August 2024.

He was detained on August 4, 2021 as part of a criminal case. The trial was held behind closed doors.

Alexey was accused of active participation in group actions that grossly violated public order for the events of September 13, 2020, as well as attempted theft.

He was detained on February 23, 2021 and kept in a pre-trial detention center until his trial. On August 15, 2021, Alexey was sentenced to three years in prison in the Frunzensky District Court of Minsk to be served in a general regime colony . Minsktrans filed a claim for compensation for damage caused in the amount of almost 29 thousand rubles . Alena Busheva also decided to apply “compulsory security measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism and drug addiction” to Alexey at the place where he was serving his sentence.

At the time of his arrest, Alexey Maltsev had an outstanding criminal record and was serving a sentence of restriction of freedom without being sent to the Penitentiary Labor Inspectorate: 2 months and 3 days remained before the expiration of the term at the time of arrest.

11/20/2023 released after expiration of sentence.

Ilya was detained in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against falsifications in the presidential elections that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."

According to human rights activists, he was released in November 2024, having fully served his sentence.

In the Leninsky District Court of Minsk on August 6, the chairman of the United Civil Party (UCP), a member of the main staff of the Coordination Council, Nikolai Kozlov, was sentenced to three months of arrest. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 407 of the Criminal Code for disclosing data in a criminal case against the Coordination Council, but the specific episodes of the charges are unknown, since the trial was held behind closed doors. Released on March 26, 2022 at the end of his sentence. At the end of July 2022, he was detained again. According to the indictment, on August 23, 2020, Kozlov, Kovaleva and Alekseeva “publicly shouted slogans, applauded loudly, were on the roadway, thereby blocking and impeding the movement of transport in Minsk, including the city passenger transport Minsktrans.”

The trial of the UCP members began on November 1, 2022 in the Pervomaisky district court of Minsk. On November 3, Judge Anastasia Kulik sentenced the political prisoner to two and a half years in prison.

On January 31, 2023, the Minsk City Court considered the appeal of the UCP leaders. The sentence remained unchanged, and the complaint was not satisfied.

In mid-February, the political prisoner was transferred to Mogilev penal colony No. 15. Immediately after quarantine, Nikolai was placed in a punishment cell until March 26.

At the beginning of May 2023, the political prisoner’s mother died. Nikolai was not released from the colony for the funeral.

At the beginning of July 2023, Nikolai’s associates said that the political prisoner was hospitalized with bronchitis.

In mid-December 2023, it became known that the politician was placed in the FCT for 2 months in November.

07/22/2024 released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Vladimir was arrested in July 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. He was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

While in prison, Vladimir faced another trial—this time for a comment he left about Gorki traffic police officer Yuri Demyanovich on the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel. The political prisoner was sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral order, and through partial addition, his prison term was increased by six months.

Vladimir was released in April 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Viktor was detained in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against falsifications in the presidential elections that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."

He was released in May 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Denis was convicted on June 23, 2021, for commenting on riot police actions against civilians.

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

Oleg is a journalist for Radio Svaboda, previously worked for the Znamya Yunosti newspaper, and was one of the founders of the RID news agency. In the summer of 2020, he actively covered the protests in Belarus and conducted live streams. In August, he lost his Foreign Ministry accreditation along with other journalists from foreign media outlets.

On July 16, 2021, he was detained during a large-scale search of independent journalists' homes. He was released ten days later, remaining a suspect. On December 23 of that year, security forces again raided his home and took him into custody on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order or actively participating in them."

In March 2022, the court found Oleg guilty, declaring that he participated in unauthorized protests during which Minsktrans calculated damages of 56,000 rubles.

In September 2022, the journalist was released as part of a pardon.

Vyacheslav, an English teacher at Svisloch Secondary School No. 2, was accused of slandering Lukashenko. On August 20, 2020, the leadership of the Svisloch Executive Committee organized a meeting with residents, which Vyacheslav attended. It was the executive committee leadership that accused him of slandering Lukashenko at this meeting.

On June 30, 2021, the court sentenced Vyacheslav to imprisonment, and he was taken into custody in the courtroom.

In December 2022, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Andrey is the head of the advertising and marketing department of Nasha Niva, the author of the Nasha Gistoriya magazine. From 2006 to 2017, he was the editor-in-chief of the publication. On July 8, 2021, he was detained in a case of "group actions grossly violating public order." He was later charged under the article on "causing property damage without signs of theft" - for paying for utilities at rates for individuals instead of legal entities. The investigation calculated the damage at more than 10 thousand rubles.

In March 2022, he was sentenced to imprisonment, despite the fact that the damages were fully compensated.

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