Artem worked as an optician at the Lida Optik plant. He received his education at the Grodno Physics and Mathematics Lyceum and the Lida Polytechnic College. He was detained on September 27, 2020, in connection with a case of mass riots and accused of participating in Telegram channels of a "radical orientation" and of intending to damage or destroy three Tabakerka kiosks.
In May 2022, Artem was convicted again for participating in protests that took place in Lida in 2020.
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Pavel was convicted of, according to the charges, acting in a group with other people, throwing pieces of paving slabs and other objects at police cars.
In February 2022, by a court decision, Pavel's sentence was replaced with a stricter one - imprisonment.
According to human rights activists, he was released in July 2023, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 18.06.2021
3 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 24.08.2021
the sentence was upheld.
Regime change trial 10.02.2022
1 year 5 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Arseniy was convicted of allegedly acting in a group with others to throw pieces of paving slabs and other objects at police cars during the August 2020 protests in Lida.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 18.06.2021
3 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Nikita was convicted of participating in protests that took place in Lida in August 2020. On August 12, he was detained and fined under an administrative article (10 basic units). In February 2021, he was detained again for the same events, but this time on a criminal case. After posting bail, he was released pending trial, and in June of the same year, he was sentenced to restricted freedom with direction.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 18.06.2021
3 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Dmitry, a student at the Lida Lyceum of Land Reclamation Construction, was convicted of allegedly acting in a group with others and throwing pieces of paving slabs and other objects at police cars. Dmitry partially admitted his guilt and was taken into custody in the courtroom.
According to human rights activists, he was released in June 2022, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Evgeniy was convicted for participating in a peaceful protest on August 12, 2020, in the center of Lida. At that time, city residents and priests gathered near the district executive committee. After a while, security forces demanded that they disperse, and then began harsh detentions and abuse of people. In response, the protesters threw several stones at the police transport.
According to witnesses, riot police and local police officers took part in the violence. Yevgeny was beaten during his arrest and then accused of using violence against police officers.
The trial was held behind closed doors at the request of the prosecutor due to the “secret persons” in the case.
Nikolai, an activist and administrator of the Telegram channel "Lida for Life", was detained in Moscow in March 2021 at the request of the Belarusian prosecutor's office, as he was wanted in a criminal case on "organizing or actively participating in group actions that grossly violate public order." He was taken into custody in a pretrial detention center for a month and a half, after which he was released on bail.
After his release, Nikolai was fined 5,000 Russian rubles for violating immigration regulations, and then left Russia for Poland.
Was in:IK-17IK №17, 213004, Shklov, ul. 1-ya Zavodskaya, 8
21.05.2021 Member of the Sei of the BNF party, coordinator of the Grodno region "Rukha za Svabodu". He was sentenced to 5 years in prison on 18 January 2021, and died in a penal colony in Škloŭ reportedly from cardiac arrest.
Vitold, an activist from Berezovka and a member of the BPF party, as well as the coordinator of the For Freedom movement, was detained in September 2020 and later convicted of participating in protests. He served his sentence until his death, which occurred under unclear circumstances. No criminal case was opened into his death, and the official version points to "cardiac arrest." The relatives and associates of the political prisoner consider his death to be violent, which is also confirmed by former political prisoners.
On May 21, 2021, Vitold died in penal colony No. 17 in Shklov.
Oleg, a former ambulance paramedic and salesman at the 5th Element, was arrested on November 4, 2020 and convicted of “gross violation of public order” and “deliberate damage to the railway.” However, the real reason for his conviction was his participation in a meeting with Sergei Tikhanovsky in the spring of 2020.
On June 3, 2023, he was released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.
25.09.2021
Transferred to IK-17. Mogilev region, Shklov city, 1st Zavodskaya street, 8, index 213004.
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