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Irina was arrested in 2024 and convicted of "inciting hatred and discord" and insulting Lukashenko. It is also known that in February of that year, she was arrested on administrative charges of distributing materials included on the national list of extremist materials, as well as their production, storage, or transportation with intent to distribute.
In September 2025, she was released, having served her entire sentence.
A former journalist for Media-Polesye, Yevgeny was severely beaten during the protests.
On August 10, 2020, Yevgeny went to the protests as a journalist. He was detained , first beaten by police in the Pinsk City Executive Committee restroom, then in a police van. He was then taken to the Pinsk City Police Department's shooting range, where Ales Romanovich saw him badly beaten. He was then placed in the Pinsk temporary detention facility, and then taken to the pretrial detention center of the Ivatsevichi colony, where security forces had housed some of the detainees.
A week after the beating, the journalist still had bruises. It was reported that traces of the beating remained on his face even a month later, including deep scars. Media-Polesye also reported at the time that its employee had suffered an eye injury.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
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Detained for reposting from social networks and participating in protests in 2020.
He was released in May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
According to the prosecutor's office , Artem decided to deposit money through an information kiosk in June of this year, but was unable to complete the planned transaction. So, upon returning home, he "called a contact center employee at Belarusbank and, during the conversation, made negative comments about the President of the Republic of Belarus."
Investigative authorities and the prosecutor's office qualified this as a "public insult," as it "was committed in the presence of an outsider—an employee of the contact center of JSC ASB Belarusbank, who subsequently conveyed this information to others (management)." Essentially, the bank employee herself "revealed" the contents of a private conversation.
The investigation also determined that Artem's statements were "humiliating, undermining the authority of the Head of State, his personal and professional qualities, as well as the authority of state power as a whole."
He was scheduled to be released on November 25 , 2025 .
According to the court, the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, in Brest, people "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped, displayed white-red-white banners, and stepped onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the summer of 2025, having served her full sentence.
According to the court, the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, in Brest, people "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped, displayed white-red-white banners, and stepped onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
He was expected to be released on November 1 , 2025 .
According to the court, the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, in Brest, people "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped, displayed white-red-white banners, and stepped onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
He was expected to be released on November 6, 2025.
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Elena, a sole proprietor, was detained and charged with "inciting ethnic hatred" and "cynical treatment of the victims of the terrorist attack." In late March, she wrote on a Telegram channel: "In Russia, they only see the victims in Crocus City, and they don't see the victims of Russia's bombing of Ukraine."
Gomel Prosecutor Vladislav Zhurakovsky mentioned her case, stating that a criminal case had been opened against her "under the extremism statute" for "insulting the Russian people" on "opposition Ukrainian internet resources." She was also convicted of "assisting extremist activity."
It also became known that Elena's health had deteriorated in the pretrial detention center. She was placed on bed rest, which allowed her to lie on the bed for several hours a day. She frequently visited doctors, and was sometimes prescribed injections.
In September 2025 , she was released, having fully served her sentence.
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According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and went out onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and went out onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
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Convicted for a protest that took place from August 10 to 11, 2020 in Bereza.
Entrepreneur providing services for refueling, repair and maintenance of car air conditioners and refrigerators.
He was released in early 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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On the morning of February 26, 2023, in the vicinity of the military airfield of the 50th mixed base of the Belarusian Air Force in Machulishchi (Minsk region), local residents heard several explosions. According to BYPOL, they were the result of an attack by a drone of "Belarusian partisans" on a Russian military airborne early warning and control aircraft (AEW&C) A-50. On March 7, 2023, Lukashenko confirmed the information that the aircraft was in Russia, as well as the fact of the attack in Machulishchi. On the same day , the authorities reported that a Ukrainian citizen, Nikolai Shvets, was detained in this case, as alleged, and was named as the perpetrator of the sabotage. Later, state TV channels released an "investigation" about him. Before the sabotage, the man lived in Minsk for a month. At the end of June 2024, Minsk handed over Nikolai Shvets to Ukraine, who was accused of blowing up a military aircraft in the village of Machulishchi.