Roman was found guilty in September 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a video featuring Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, in which he pinned a detainee to the ground with his knee.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
