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In custody: ~730 days
Hometown: Vitebsk
Date of birth: 05.09.1986
Was in: IUOT-36IUOT-36, 220039, Minsk, ul. Korotkevicha, 14
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Nikolai was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.

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

Trial outcome 29.09.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Mikita Yuryevich Paleonak
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In custody: ~1348 days
Hometown: Vitebsk
Date of birth: 15.11.1993
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-22IK -22, p.o.b 20, Brest region, Ivatsevichi, st. Domanovo, 225295
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He was detained for comments he made in the Vitebsk 97 chat room about law enforcement officers during the events in Kazakhstan in January 2022.

A repentant video was published online, showing a naked young man apologizing for the comments he wrote.

He was released in September 2025, having served his full sentence.

Trial outcome 08.08.2022
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~731 day
Hometown: Dobrush
Date of birth: 22.04.1973
Was in: IUOT-55IUOT-55, ul. Socyalisticheskaya, 7, Minsk, 220021
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Vladimir was found guilty in January 2022 of "insulting a government official" for comments he left in August 2020 on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photograph of two Grodno police officers beating a man.

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

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Trial outcome 26.01.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~475 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests Gomel 2020
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 21.05.1997
Was in: IK-22IK -22, p.o.b 20, Brest region, Ivatsevichi, st. Domanovo, 225295
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Alexander was detained in January 2022 by GUBOPiK and OMON officers, who attacked him, pushing him face-first into the snow, and then dragged him into a police car. He was recorded on video, claiming he didn't know why he was detained. According to police testimony, in the summer of 2020, Alexander left messages in a local chat room advising people to "gather in small groups in each district and then head downtown" and to "abandon their cars on the road" on central streets.

In April 2022, Alexander was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

He was released in May 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Trial outcome 13.04.2022
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~578 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 19.09.1979
Was in: SIZO-6SIZO-6, Baranovichi, Brestskaya ul. 258 B, 225413
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Sergei was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."

In January 2022, he was convicted of participating in a gang fight during a post-election protest that took place in Minsk from August 9 to 10, 2020, and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Trial outcome 14.01.2022
2 years of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions, 3000 rubles of compensation.
Henadz Barysavich Siauruk
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In custody: ~1373 days
Hometown: Solomenka
Date of birth: 02.11.1968
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-2IK №2, 213800, Bobruysk, ul. Sikorskogo, 1
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Convicted under Article 364, Article 369, Article 368, Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. It is known that the man worked in a taxi, and was also a driver at various enterprises.

He was previously convicted of participating in protest actions under an administrative article.

Trial outcome date unknown
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: 348 days
folder Categories of cases: Grodno protests 2020
Hometown: Bolshoe Mozheykovo
Date of birth: 06.12.1987
Was in: IUOT-39IUOT-39, Krupki-2, 222002
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Vadim was removed from the Moscow-Grodno train in Orsha on November 19, 2021, and detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."

In February 2022, he was convicted of participating in a protest that took place on September 6, 2020, in Grodno near the Brest supermarket and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.

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

Trial outcome 02.02.2022
1 year 4 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~1096 days
Hometown: Kostyukovichi
Date of birth: 23.07.1976
Was in: IUOT-43IUOT-43, 212003, Mogilev, ul. Cheliuskentsev, 76A
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Vitaly was found guilty of insulting the chief and deputy chief of the Khotsimsk traffic police.

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

Trial outcome date unknown
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: 729 days
Hometown: Baranovichi
Date of birth: 23.01.1985
Was in: IUOT-43IUOT-43, 212003, Mogilev, ul. Cheliuskentsev, 76A
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Denis was found guilty in August 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left in the "Baranovichi Free" Telegram chat under a video featuring former Interior Minister Yuri Karaev.

He was released in October 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Trial outcome 18.08.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Leanid Piatrovich Chyrykau
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In custody: 448 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Vilyeyka
Date of birth: 24.02.1998
Was in: IK-3IK №3
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Leonid, a Russian citizen, was arrested in August 2021 on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.

In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in the 2020 post-election protests in Minsk and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

He was released in the fall of 2022, having fully served his sentence, and deported from Belarus with a one-year entry ban.

Trial outcome 21.12.2021
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~995 days
Hometown: Navahrudak
Date of birth: 15.02.1998
Was in: IUOT-9IUOT-9, 210034, Vitebsk, ul. 3-ya Chepinskaya, 39
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Convicted for participating in a chain of vehicles during protests.

He is expected to be released on September 6, 2024.

Trial outcome 21.12.2021
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~548 days
Hometown: Mazyr
Date of birth: 27.09.1972
Was in: IUOT-55IUOT-55, ul. Socyalisticheskaya, 7, Minsk, 220021
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Leonid was found guilty in January 2022 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served his sentence.

In November 2024, a court hearing was held for Igor Nikolaevich Volnich "on compensation for moral damages caused as a result of a crime." It is unknown whether this was the same claim for compensation awarded in January 2022, or whether this was a new incident.

Trial outcome 19.01.2022
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Trial outcome 12.11.2024
unknown rubles of compensation.
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In custody: ~731 day
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 12.05.1993
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It is known that Maxim, a car wash employee, was arrested on September 23, 2021; it is unknown whether he was in pre-trial detention.

In January 2022, he was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for posting an obscene comment about female riot police officers under a Telegram post, allegedly intending to "damage the authority of state power, its representatives, and their honor and dignity."

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

Trial outcome 20.01.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 4000 rubles of compensation.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: 591 day
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 16.02.1999
Was in: IUOT-43IUOT-43, 212003, Mogilev, ul. Cheliuskentsev, 76A
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Alexei was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." In January 2022, he was convicted for participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Minsk.

He was released in October 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Trial outcome 17.01.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Liudmila Vitalyeuna Volkava
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In custody: ~623 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 19.05.1992
Number of children: 1 child
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Administrator of the telegram channel «BSDP».

She was detained on January 19, 2022 at the workplace under a criminal article. A year ago, Lyudmila was a witness in another criminal case, in which her home was searched by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.

Lyudmila has a little child.

Trial outcome 31.05.2022
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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