Alexey Valerievich Lazarenko

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.

Andrei was convicted of participating in "mass riots" in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential election that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.

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

Andrei was convicted under the articles “Hooliganism” and “Desecration of historical and cultural values.”

On August 14, 2020, he drew a circle with a horizontal line on the statue of a woman in the Minsk Hero City obelisk complex, thereby, according to investigators, desecrating cultural values and the memory of those killed in the Great Patriotic War.

He was released in September 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Vladimir, a father of many children, was convicted in June 2021 and sentenced to imprisonment. According to the charges, in August 2020, he posted offensive messages in a Telegram chat to an internal affairs officer with threats of violence.

He was released in May 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Sergei was arrested in July 2020 in a criminal case opened for insulting Lukashenko. Before the verdict, he was under a written undertaking not to leave. Since January 2021, four closed court hearings have been held - without the participation of lawyers and witnesses. Of the 96 charges, 13 were proven. In March 2021, Sergei was sentenced to imprisonment.

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

In August 2020, during a protest, Andrei tried to take a woman away from the riot police, for which he was brutally beaten by seven security officers. An ambulance was called for him at the police station - he was taken to the hospital with a head injury, hematomas and wounds, where he received stitches. A complaint was filed with the Investigative Committee regarding the beating, but the case was never opened. However, at the end of 2020, a criminal case was opened against Andrei, and in April 2021, he was detained as part of a case opened after spontaneous protests that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest against the falsification of the presidential elections. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots".

According to human rights activists, he was released in February 2025, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.