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Stanislav was convicted of "threatening to kill" RT employee Konstantin Pridybaylo and "inciting ethnic hatred and discord" against Russians. The charges stemmed from his phone call on September 14, 2020, to Pridybaylo at a number published in the "Black Book of Belarus" and the threat he made. He also made statements on internet portals, including the phrase "a good Muscovite is a dead Muscovite."
During the trial, it was reported that Pridybaylo was temporarily transferred to the Russian embassy in Minsk for safety reasons; he attended the trial only on the day of the closing arguments and filed a civil lawsuit for "moral suffering."
In November 2022, Stanislav's prison regime was tightened, and he was transferred from an open-type correctional facility to a penal colony. According to human rights activists, his health, including his vision, deteriorated sharply in prison; doctors diagnosed diabetic retinopathy, treatment for which was interrupted after his transfer to the penal colony.
In May 2024, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
The court found Andrei guilty of "desecration of buildings and damage to property" and sentenced him to 120 hours of community service.
Alla was convicted for a social media comment under a photo of the deputy head of the Kobrin District Police Department. According to the prosecution, the comment, published on August 25, 2020, contained obscene language and a negative assessment of the government official.
In March 2022, Alla was pardoned.
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Natalya was found guilty for a comment she left on a Telegram channel, in which she commented on the actions of Mikhalochkin, a traffic police lieutenant in the city of Kamenets (Brest Region). During the investigation, she explained that she was motivated by the fact that Mikhalochkin's father, while working at a school, "raised his son profitably."
Artyom was found guilty of creating an open Telegram channel on January 26, 2021, and posting images of seven Osipovichi District Police Department officers with derogatory comments. In early February 2022, his prison regime was tightened and he was transferred to a penal colony to serve the remainder of his sentence.
In October 2022, Artyom was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
At the end of August 2023, Artyom was convicted under Part 4 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (illegal drug trafficking); he is serving his sentence in Correctional Colony No. 20.
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Alexander was serving a restricted freedom sentence for malicious hooliganism unrelated to politics and left offensive comments on an "extremist" Telegram channel under photographs of a prosecutor and a police officer from Minsk.
In August 2021, he was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of restricted freedom, to which the remaining term from the previous sentence was added, bringing the total sentence to 2 years and 8 months of "chemistry."
At the end of April 2022, the sentence was changed to imprisonment in a penal colony after four penalties for violating the conditions of detention in a correctional facility.
In April 2023, Alexander was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Yuri was found guilty of leaving a comment on social media on March 1, 2021, intending to publicly insult Lukashenko. The expert examination found it derogatory and negative toward Lukashenko: "A vile creature cannot be king, a Lucifer in human form..."
At the end of January 2023, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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Tatyana was detained on January 19, 2021. She was released three days later, but on June 3 of that year, she was detained again in connection with a criminal case. From that moment until her trial, she remained in custody.
In August 2021, she was found guilty of three criminal charges for comments left on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus," which concerned 14 law enforcement officers and a judge. She was sentenced to restricted freedom and ordered to pay substantial compensation to the "victims."
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Olesya, a Russian citizen, was found guilty in August 2021 for comments she made in the Telegram channel "Baranovich-Yuzhny_chat" under a photograph of local police chief Alexei Getman. Investigators classified these comments as slander and insult to a government official. In her comments, she criticized his actions and called him "the most notorious fascist in Baranovichi." Alesya stated that she believed the case was politically motivated and that Getman had threatened her and her child, but the judge dismissed this.
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Alexey was arrested in March 2021 and convicted of "inciting hatred or discord" for comments on the social network VKontakte, with a prison sentence.
In September 2021, as part of a pardon, he was transferred from the penal colony to an open-type correctional facility. On November 29, 2021, it was announced that Alexei had left the penal colony and left Belarus.
In late October 2022, reports emerged of his detention in Russia. It was reported that Alexei first went to Smolensk to visit relatives, then moved to Belgorod, and after the war began, he moved to Voronezh, where he was detained by police. On October 26, 2022, he was transferred to Belarus, and in November, a court hearing was held, resulting in Alexei's detention being changed from an open correctional facility to a penal colony.
In August 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
Ilya was detained in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against falsifications in the presidential elections that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
According to human rights activists, he was released in November 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Nadezhda, the vocalist of the band IRDORATH, was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021, at a dacha near Minsk while celebrating her birthday with other musicians and guests.
In December of that year, she was found guilty of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" for her participation in post-election protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.
She was released in April 2023, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.
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Vladimir, a musician and frontman of the band IRDORATH, was arrested on the evening of August 2, 2021, at a dacha near Minsk during a birthday celebration for his wife and IRDORATH vocalist, Nadezhda Kalach, along with other musicians and guests.
In December of that year, he was found guilty of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" for his participation in post-election protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.
He was released in April 2023, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
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Pyotr, a musician who plays string instruments and is the former guitarist for the band IRDORATH, was arrested on the evening of August 2, 2021, at a dacha near Minsk during the birthday party of IRDORATH vocalist Nadezhda Kalach, along with other musicians, as part of a criminal investigation.
In December of that year, he was found guilty of "organizing actions that grossly violate public order, as well as training or otherwise preparing individuals to participate in such actions" for his participation in post-election protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.
He was released in October 2022, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
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Yulia, a choral conductor and backing vocalist for several projects by the band IRDORATH, was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021, at a dacha near Minsk during the birthday celebration of IRDORATH vocalist Nadezhda Kalach, along with other musicians, as part of a criminal case.
In December of that year, she was found guilty of "organizing actions that grossly violate public order, as well as training or other preparation of individuals to participate in such actions" for her participation in post-election protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.
She was released in October 2022, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.