Political persecutions

Dmitry was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.

He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Anastasia was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.

She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Olga was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.

She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Boris was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.

He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Kirill was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.

He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Pavel was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.

He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Alexander was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.

He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Ekaterina was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.

She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Nikolai, a member of the United Civil Party, was arrested in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." The reason for his arrest, according to available information, was subscriptions to banned Telegram channels and photos from peaceful protests in August 2020 on social media. It is also known that he had already been detained and held for 24 hours during the previous presidential election.

In March 2022, after three months in prison, Nikolai was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.

Dmitry was found guilty in December 2021 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and "insulting a government official" for a comment left in the "Free Nesvizh" community addressed to Valery Troyanovsky, head of the Nesvizh District Department of Internal Affairs, which, according to the prosecution, contained a threat of violence against the victim.

Anastasia was detained along with her mother in December 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 placed in pretrial detention.

In March 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to a term of imprisonment without being sent to an open correctional facility, and was released in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.

On September 20, 2023, Anastasia fully served her sentence of restricted freedom.

Stanislav was arrested on November 24, 2021, on administrative charges. However, after serving his sentence, he was not released from the temporary detention facility and was transferred to a pretrial detention center for a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in such actions."

In March 2022, he was found guilty of participating in post-election protests that took place in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility.

Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.

In February 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 in a penal colony.

Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a one-word comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki addressed to police officer Voynich.

Alexander has a third-degree disability and, at the time of the trial, was caring for his nearly blind 83-year-old father. Shortly before the trial, he refused hospitalization due to a pre-stroke condition, as he wanted to attend the court hearing in person. Nevertheless, the court sentenced him to restricted freedom and ordered him to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victim."

Andrei was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on TikTok about Sergei Lovchy, a juvenile affairs inspector, and Alexander Yesyulevich, a district police officer.

Yuri was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki about Andrei Komar, a senior district police inspector at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs, under a post about the events at Sergei Tikhanovsky's picket.