Political persecutions

Marina was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki addressed to Yuri Chernyshkov, an operative of the Drogichin District Police Department. The comment was posted under a post alleging that Chernyshkov had punched and kicked a girl on a square in Drogichin on August 10, 2020, and then "handed her over" to riot police.

Evgeny was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on desecration of buildings and damage to property for applying protest-related graffiti and images ("Long Live Belarus!", "3%," and white and red stripes) to three bus stops in Zhodzina.

Yuri was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on desecration of buildings and damage to property for applying protest-related graffiti and images ("Long Live Belarus!", "3%," and white and red stripes) to three bus stops in Zhodzina.

Natalia was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding the leadership of the Dubrovensky District Department of Internal Affairs.

Vitaly was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding Svetlogorsk District Police Department traffic police inspector, Major A.V. Bagraenko. According to the prosecution, the comment contained a negative assessment of the "victim."

Alexander was found guilty of insulting a government official for a comment he left on Facebook about T. O. Pakhomenko, head of the prevention department of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Mogilev. According to the prosecution, the comment contained a negative assessment of the "victim." Alexander was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.

In February 2025, a court hearing in absentia was held within the framework of special proceedings on the issue of increasing the severity of the punishment.

According to the indictment, on the night of February 9-10, 2021, Tatyana obstructed the lawful activities of police officers, namely, a search of her home. According to the officers, during her arrest, Tatyana bit the finger of one of the officers, bit through the glove of another, and kicked a third officer in the head. They also claimed that the woman called them "bandits," "fascists," and "punishers."

In May 2021, Tatyana was found guilty of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and sentenced to a restricted sentence in an open correctional facility.

Left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.

In January 2025, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment with serving the sentence in a penal colony.

Alexey was found guilty in January 2021 of desecrating state symbols for tearing down a red-and-green flag in central Gomel in October 2020.

Evgeny was found guilty of gross violation of public order and violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer for participating in a protest that took place in Zhlobin from August 10 to 11, 2020. Evgeny was a minor at the time of his participation.

Valery was found guilty in November 2020 of a criminal case opened under the article on violence or the threat of violence against a law enforcement officer for participating in a post-election protest on September 8, 2020, in Minsk. According to the charges, during the protest, he "used violence against a riot police officer, striking him in the face at least twice and kicking him in the face again while being escorted to a police car."

Ekaterina was found guilty in January 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official for reposting a photograph and personal information, as well as for posting a comment on this post on the Telegram channel "Slonim for Life," about a riot police officer from the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, Senior Police Sergeant Sergei Oskolkov. According to the investigation, under the repost, she posted a message "containing offensive content, degrading the honor and dignity of Oskolkov."

Alexander was found guilty in January 2021 of a criminal case opened for desecration of state symbols. According to the charges, 16-year-old Alexander was on the porch of the rural community center in the urban settlement of Antopol when he intentionally and repeatedly grabbed and pulled at the flagpole and pole of a flag mounted on a bracket near the main entrance. As a result, he tore down the red-and-green flag, damaging the pole in the process. The young man was given the compulsory educational measures prescribed for minors.

Maxim was found guilty of criminal defamation. According to the charges, on September 14, 2020, he used his mobile phone to post personal information about Brest OMON commander Maxim Mikhovich on a regional Telegram channel. The prosecution alleges that the published information was accompanied by text "containing slanderous, false, and defamatory information about the police officer."

Artyom was found guilty of desecrating state symbols. According to the prosecution, in September 2020, near a fountain on Sovetskaya Street in Brest, he attempted to set fire to the national flag, and when he failed, he tore it to pieces.

Dmitry was found guilty in January 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment he left in the Telegram chat "Banda Luka" (Luka's Gang) about Olga Chemodanova, press secretary for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the indictment, the comment "humiliated Chemodanova's honor and dignity, caused her moral and emotional suffering, undermined her authority, personal and professional qualities, and the authority of the internal affairs agencies as a whole."