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According to human rights activists, he was supposed to be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court. But it is known that during his imprisonment, another trial was held against Dmitry on August 25 , 2023 under Part 1 of Article 209 (fraud ).
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Oksana was found guilty in November 2021 of criminal charges related to insulting a government official and Lukashenko. The court sentenced her to restricted freedom and placement in an open correctional facility.
In 2022, the type of punishment was increased, and Oksana was transferred to a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served her sentence.
Vasily was found guilty in a criminal case brought for insulting Lukashenko. According to the charges, on June 10, 2021, Vasily went to a store to buy alcohol, but was refused. He then went to a bar, where he bought a beer but refused to pay. Following the ensuing conflict, he began to vocally rant and rave, criticizing the bar staff, the government, and Lukashenko.
Pavel was convicted of "desecration of state symbols." According to the prosecution, he tore a state flag from a store building, then began waving it, hitting the flagpole against the building's parapet, causing it to break. He then threw the flagpole, its torn flag, into a puddle and walked on it.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Yuri was first found guilty in July 2021 of a criminal offense under the article "insulting a government official." According to the charges, on January 12, 2021, he left an offensive comment under a photograph of police officer Anton Yanushkevich on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus." Furthermore, on March 5, 2021, Yuri left another offensive comment under a photograph of OMON commander Dmitry Balaba on the Telegram channel "Belarus of the Brain."
In November 2021, Yuri was convicted again of "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open correctional facility. He began serving his sentence in March 2022.
In December 2022, Yuri was placed in pretrial detention on a new criminal case opened under three articles, including "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." On December 23 of that year, he was found guilty for the third time and finally sentenced to five years of restricted freedom.
He was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, on March 19 (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Dmitry was convicted in the fall of 2021 on charges of "desecration of state symbols." He was accused of tearing a flag from a building, tearing it, throwing it in a trash can, and breaking the flagpole.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Anton was found guilty in October 2021 of insulting a government official. The charges stemmed from a comment he left under a post on the social media account of political prisoner Pyotr Zinevich, referring to the acting commander of the Minsk OMON unit, Warrant Officer Yevgeny Savich.
Anton had approximately eight months of house arrest remaining. However, due to alleged violations of the terms of his sentence, on April 11, 2023, his sentence was increased and he was sentenced to four months in a penal colony. He was remanded in custody after the trial.
He was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Alexey was found guilty in October 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social media site Odnoklassniki about Andrei Komar, a senior district police officer in Bobruisk.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Viktor was found guilty in September 2021 of insulting a government official. The case was brought against him after he posted a comment on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a post featuring a photo of Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Gelda, deputy head of the Molodechno District Department of Internal Affairs for ideological work: "Hold the b*tch to account!" Gelda was recognized as a victim and ordered to pay substantial compensation for moral damages.
In June 2023, Viktor was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Convicted for threatening violence in comments to Nikolai Karpenkov.
On May 24, 2023, it became known that Salim would be tried again under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
In August 2024, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Boris was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting Lukashenko. According to the prosecution, on January 14, 2021, he called the police on 102 from his phone and said, "Lukashenko is an idiot. That's all."
Pyotr was found guilty of desecration of state symbols on May 4, 2021, for allegedly damaging a flag on the façade of a grocery store while intoxicated in the village of Bystritsa, Kobrin District. He did so "with the intent to damage the authority of the Republic of Belarus."
According to human rights activists, Pyotr was released in 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Nikolai was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on desecration of state symbols for tearing down a red-and-green flag attached to the facade of the Euroopt store in Brest.
He was released in September 2021, having fully served his sentence.
Nikolai was found guilty in December 2020 of a criminal defamation charge. According to the ruling of Major Petrovich, investigator of the Pinsk Interdistrict Department of the Investigative Committee, Nikolai intentionally posted images of Major Sakovich on the "Pinsk for Life" Telegram channel on two occasions—on August 18 and 20, 2020.
He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.