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In 2022, Alexey was prosecuted for comments he left on social media, but the criminal case was dismissed three times after expert examinations due to a lack of evidence of a crime.
In November 2023, he was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened based on the same comments. On April 8, 2024, Alexei was found guilty of five criminal charges, including "discrediting the Republic of Belarus" and "insulting Alexander Lukashenko," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony and a large fine.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
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Nikita, Larisa Yakhimovich's son, was arrested in March 2024 as part of a criminal case opened following the spontaneous protests that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020, against voter fraud in the presidential election. He was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order."
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
A pro-government channel shows the arrest of a man: three security officers run up to him from behind on the street and put him face down on the asphalt. In the video, Yakovenko says that on August 10, 2020, he was on Masherov Avenue in Brest. He was there with his friend Igor Sorokin (he was arrested in February after returning from Poland).
According to human rights activists, he was released at the end of May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
In a “repentance video” on a pro-government channel , a man says that he was previously arrested for 10 days under the article on distributing “extremist materials” (Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code). This time he was detained for standing on the roadway with his friends in 2020 and “launching fireworks at employees.”
Detained in a criminal case of mass riots 08/10/2020
Maria was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.
Vitaly was detained at his workplace by GUBOPiK officers as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in such actions." During his detention and interrogation, physical force and psychological pressure were used against him.
In April 2024, Vitaly was convicted for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.
Released in November 2024 as part of a pardon.
Vladislav was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.
He was released in the fall of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
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Artyom was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020. It is known that he was detained in August 2020, and at the time he was a minor.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2025, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Artyom was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.
In November 2024, Artem was pardoned.
Igor was arrested in March 2024 and found guilty in the fall of that year under the article “participation in mass riots.”
A pro-government channel showed his arrest: at least five armed security officers wearing body armor and helmets arrived at Igor's apartment. They threw the Brest resident, wearing only his underwear, to the floor. In the video, the detainee says he was in a "linkage" on Sovetskaya Street in Brest.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
On September 15, 2023, 57-year-old Gennady Vasilyuk was fined for "distributing extremist materials." Subscriptions to "extremist" materials were found on Gennady's Odnoklassniki page. Furthermore, Vasilyuk was dismissed from the locomotive depot "by mutual agreement."
On December 7, 2023, Gennady was arrested in connection with a criminal case for "defamation of Lukashenko" (Part 1, Article 367 of the Criminal Code) and placed in pretrial detention. The case was heard on February 22 and 26, 2024.
The man was accused of posting "likes" on three videos featuring economist Yaroslav Romanchuk on the social media site Odnoklassniki on June 8, 9, and 17, 2022.
Gennady admitted his guilt and stated that on the specified dates in June, he traveled to a village in the Zhabinka district, as confirmed by a mobile phone statement. He uses a push-button phone, so he couldn't have accessed Odnoklassniki while in the village.
Prosecutor Yegor Kronda found Gennady's guilt fully proven and requested a sentence of one year and six months in prison for him.
Gennady was convicted a second time on September 16, 2024, for participating in protests. His wife and three others were also convicted along with him. According to the court, the charge against all three 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.
The court sentenced Gennady to one and a half years in prison, but taking into account the unserved previous (political) sentence, the final sentence was only two years in a general regime penal colony.
He was expected to be released in October 2025 .
Stanislav was detained upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had moved more than a year earlier. He came home in late 2023 to spend the holidays with his family, but was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened after protests on August 10, 2020, in Brest against the falsification of the presidential election. Stanislav was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”
In a pro-government confessional video published, he says that he "participated in protests and went out onto the roadway." The recording shows that Stanislav's face is scratched, although no such damage was visible when he was detained.
Alesya was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, people sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.