Evgeny was arrested on December 8, 2021, and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. The arrest was precipitated by the discovery of a wallet with a Pogonya logo during a search. Evgeny was not released after serving his administrative arrest, as a criminal case had been opened against him for "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation therein."
In March 2022, Yevhen was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in Minsk on October 25, 2020. Photos from the protest were found on his mobile phone, showing him with a white-red-white flag draped over his shoulders.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In October 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing a restriction of freedom with a referral to an open-type correctional facility with imprisonment.
