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Viktor was arrested in August 2020 as part of a criminal case opened after a protest held on August 10, 2020 in Novopolotsk against the falsification of the presidential elections. He was later released on bail.
In January 2021, Viktor was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restriction of freedom. However, in June, he was released from the correctional facility pending appeal, as the prosecutor filed a protest. At the end of June, his sentence was changed to imprisonment.
In December 2022, Viktor's sentence was changed to prison.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Alexander was arrested in connection with a criminal case brought for damaging three "Tabakeroks". He was convicted of writing the words "Tribunal" and "OMON" on two of them.
Ilya was arrested in connection with a criminal case brought for damaging three "Tabakeroks". He was convicted of writing the words "OMON" and "Sasha" on one of them, along with obscene language.
Daniil was detained as part of a criminal case opened for damaging three "Tabakeroks". He was taken to the Investigative Committee, where he was interrogated for two days without food, water or toilet, so that he would take all the blame on himself.
He was convicted for depicting on one of them a cross with four letters: OGSB.
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Artem was detained in connection with a criminal case brought for damaging three Tabakeroks. He was convicted of writing the words “Long Live Belarus” on one of them and “actively resisting detention.”
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Irina was convicted for a comment on a social network left in December 2020 under a photograph of the head of the Postavy District Department of Internal Affairs, Alexander Rybakov, in connection with the performance of his official duties, as well as for cartridges from a small-caliber rifle found during a search.
She was released in November 2022, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
In November 2023, it became known that the former political prisoner's preventive supervision was extended for two years. In addition, Irina was tried for reposting materials from sources deemed "extremist."
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Yulia was detained at the end of January 2021 on charges of blocking roads in Romanovskaya Sloboda in Minsk on December 20, 2020 and January 3, 2021. The reason was that the girl and a group of people stood at a pedestrian crossing twice for about a minute with flags in support of political prisoners.
After her arrest, Yulia was interrogated for six days, as a result of which she lost consciousness from exhaustion and dehydration and was hospitalized. Before her trial, she was under house arrest and convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order."
Anatoly was convicted of painting the Tabakerka kiosks, the arch and the fountain in the area of the former Volgograd supermarket.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Olga was convicted for a comment left in one of the Telegram channels addressed to Lukashenko.
Artem was convicted in a criminal case brought for a comment left in a closed Telegram chat addressed to a police officer.
He was released in November 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Maxim was convicted in a criminal case brought for a comment left in a closed Telegram chat addressed to a police officer.
He was released in September 2021 as part of a pardon.
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Youras, a politician and lawyer, was arrested on April 12, 2021, in a criminal case opened under the article "conspiracy or other actions committed with the aim of seizing state power." In September 2022, he was sentenced to a long prison term on several criminal charges, despite the fact that he fully admitted his guilt and entered into an agreement with the investigation.
In December 2022, he was convicted again for “insulting a government official.” According to the state-run newspaper Minska Pravda, in 2020–2021, he allegedly repeatedly left offensive comments on a Telegram channel recognized as extremist.
In June 2023, Yourasya's sentence was increased, and he was transferred to prison regime. In August 2024, he was convicted of "malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration" - an article under which prisoners are tried for refusing to cooperate or for fictitious violations. As a result, taking into account all the court's decisions, his total term of imprisonment was 13 years and 3 months.
Youras was under constant pressure: he was repeatedly sent to solitary confinement, deprived of parcels and the opportunity to shop. In protest, he went on hunger strike several times. It is also known that he has serious health problems.
He was released in April 2025.
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Vadim, a youth coach for Dynamo Brest, was arrested in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against the falsification of the presidential elections that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
He was released in October 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Maksym, an ambulance driver, was charged and convicted of making six life-size puppets “with cynical inscriptions and images of senior officials,” which were placed on overpasses near the villages of Vilczyce and Lubuż, and then photographed and distributed online.
He was released in February 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Anastasia was convicted of, according to investigators, obstructing police actions during the arrest of a man in Lida on September 27, 2020, using violence: she tore off the shoulder strap of one officer and hit him in the head, and tore off the shoulder strap of the second.
She was released in March 2022 as part of a pardon.