Ilya was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in a protest that took place from August 9 to 10, 2020, in Zhlobin.
He was released in January 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Maxim was found guilty in January 2022 of a criminal case brought for his participation in a post-election protest in Mozyr in August 2020. According to the prosecution, he participated in a gang, threw stones and bottles at police officers, and burned tires. The court hearing was closed at the request of the victims.
He was released in April 2022 as a result of the combination of his sentence for the previous case and the time he served in a correctional colony.
Nikita was found guilty in January 2022 of a criminal case brought for his participation in a post-election protest in Mozyr in August 2020. According to the prosecution, he participated in a gang, threw stones and bottles at police officers, and burned tires. The court hearing was closed at the request of the victims.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Ruslan was arrested on November 30, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Molodechno and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Olga was arrested on November 30, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, she was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Molodechno and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in August 2022, having fully served her sentence.
Tikhon was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In December 2021, he was convicted of leaving seven comments in the "Grodno for Life" Telegram chat on September 6, 2020. He was also accused of participating in the "March of Unity," where, according to investigators, he and other participants formed a chain of ranks and blocked the entrance to the "Ranica" bookstore at 33 Mostovaya Street.
According to human rights activists, Tikhon was released in 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Alexei was found guilty of "desecration of state symbols" and sentenced to restricted freedom without referral. However, following the prosecutor's appeal, his sentence was increased, and he was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
He was released in May 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Sergei was arrested on October 13, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened for publications and comments about Lukashenko and the head of the Glubokoye District Department of Internal Affairs, Police Lieutenant Colonel Valery Kruklinsky.
In January 2022, he was found guilty of "defamation of Lukashenko," "insulting Lukashenko," "insulting a government official," and "defamation," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony. The court also ordered him to pay compensation for moral damages to Kruklinsky.
He was released in August 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Ruslan was convicted in a criminal case brought under the article "desecration of state symbols" for damaging the state flag and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was released in January 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Andrei was convicted in a criminal case brought under the article "desecration of state symbols" for tearing down the state flag and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was released in July 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 25.06.2021
1 year restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 6 rubles of compensation.
Igor was arrested in December 2021 on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In March 2022, he was found guilty of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
According to human rights activists, he was released in November 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 15.03.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Evgeny, a Russian citizen, was arrested and convicted on charges of "desecration of state symbols" for removing the flag of the Republic of Belarus, along with its flagpole, from the wall of the Ostrovets District Executive Committee's Labor and Social Protection Department, and taking it home.
He was released in December 2021, having fully served his sentence.
Ruslan was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In November 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting social hatred and discord" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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