Yuri Mikhailovich Blotsky

Daniil was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order" and was remanded in custody in a pretrial detention facility.

In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in 2020 in Soligorsk and sentenced to imprisonment and compensation for the "victims" of the police officers.

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

Kirill was arrested in August 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order" and was remanded in custody in a pretrial detention facility.

In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in 2020 in Soligorsk and sentenced to imprisonment and compensation for the "victims" of the police officers.

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

Ignat was arrested in August 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order" and was remanded in custody in a pretrial detention facility.

In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in 2020 in Soligorsk and sentenced to imprisonment and compensation for the "victims" of the police officers.

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

Pavel was arrested in August 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order" and was remanded in custody in a pretrial detention facility.

In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in 2020 in Soligorsk and sentenced to imprisonment and compensation for the "victims" of the police officers.

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

Roman was found guilty in June 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on VKontakte addressed to Sergei Solovyov, deputy head of the Soligorsk District Department of Internal Affairs, and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open correctional facility.

The prison administration recorded Roman's lateness to a lecture, sleeping under a bunk, and refusal to clean as violations of the "chemistry" regime. A court hearing was held in February 2022 on these reports, following which he was transferred to a penal colony.

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

Alexey was convicted in July 2021 for an "offensive" comment on a social network addressed to Timur Pakhomenko, head of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Mogilev, which he left back in the winter of 2020. The court sentenced him to restricted freedom with a referral.

In September 2022, the punishment was toughened and the restriction of freedom was replaced by a penal colony.

In March 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence.

Andrey was first detained on the evening of August 9, 2020, when he intervened to protect an elderly man who was being beaten by a group of people in balaclavas on the street of Soligorsk. He was beaten and arrested, sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest for participating in a rally that began only two hours after his detention and in a different area.

In December 2020, Andrei joined the strike committee of Belaruskali, where he worked as an electrical fitter. Later, due to the threat of arrest, Andrei left for Russia, but was detained at the request of the Belarusian authorities, who accused him of using violence against the police, with the purpose of extradition.

On June 24, 2021, after the maximum period of detention on this charge expired, he was released.

In 2024, Andrei was tried in absentia and convicted of “violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs agencies.”