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The Overchuk brothers were detained in early June. Pro-government telegram channels reported this. In the confessional video, the men say that on August 10, 2020, they were in Brest at a protest rally.
Also involved in this case are Oleg Litvinchuk and Alevtina Gudkova. His brother Matvey was also detained.
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2025.
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2025.
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Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
He is expected to be released on April 29, 2025.
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Accused of participating in a protest in Brest on August 10, 2020. A criminal case was opened against her under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code .
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Accused of participating in a protest in Brest on August 10, 2020. A criminal case was opened against her under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code .
He was convicted for participating in a protest that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020.
He was expected to be released on November 1 , 2025 .
He was convicted for participating in a protest that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020.
According to human rights activists , he was released in May 2025, having served his entire sentence.
Detained for a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was a minor at the time of that protest.
Nikita and seven other people began their trial on May 10, 2024, in the Moscow District Court of Brest.
According to human rights activists , he was released on September 27, 2024.
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Igor worked in Poland as an electrician. He was detained while crossing the Polish-Belarusian border.
In a pro-government video, Sorokin says that he went out onto the roadway and blocked traffic. The video is obviously from the protest action on August 10, 2020, which took place in Brest. Specifically, the moment of the skirmish at the intersection of the boulevards and Masherov Avenue.
According to human rights activists, he was released on May 9, 2025.
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Detained for participating in the protest on August 10, 2020. A pro-government channel showed a video filmed on September 10, 2020, where a young man simply stands on the roadway of Masherov Avenue among protesters, and then leaves the road. The same channel showed the arrest: special forces with shields and machine guns burst into the young man's apartment.
Andrey is a foreign language teacher who worked in an IT company before his arrest.
In the "repentance video," the man says he was detained for participating in a rally after the elections and going out into the roadway.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to 11, 2020, then-minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolai Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, and Maksim Sobolev, while on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Kosmonavtov and Shevchenko Boulevards, and Sovetskaya Street in Brest, " shouted slogans, displayed white-red-white banners, grossly violating public order, and deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of businesses and organizations."
At the court hearing, everyone admitted their guilt completely.
In September 2025, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
Stanislav was found guilty of participating in “mass riots” on the streets of Brest on August 10-11, 2020, because he did not agree with the election results.
It was Stanislav Nesteruk who was accused of deliberately breaking paving slabs, making “means of crime.” Also, according to the indictment, he caused physical harm “in the form of two wounds in the area of the first finger of the right hand” to Igor Kalyagin, and inflicted “beatings” on other victims.
Released in the summer of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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Alexander was first arrested in March 2021 and convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened after a protest on September 13, 2020, in Brest. At that time, the participants were singing and dancing in a circle, and a water cannon was used against them. He served his full sentence and was released in July 2022.
However, in December 2023, it became known about his new arrest in connection with a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest against falsifications in the presidential elections. In April 2024, he was sentenced to imprisonment for participating in the protest.
He was released in September 2024 as part of a pardon.
Ilya was detained in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against falsifications in the presidential elections that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
According to human rights activists, he was released in November 2024, having fully served his sentence.