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Andrey, a student, was detained in March 2021 right during a class and placed in a pretrial detention center. The next day, security forces came to the dormitory where he lived, interrogated his neighbors and seized equipment.
Andrey was charged under two articles of the Criminal Code: violence against police officers and participation in group actions that grossly violate public order. According to investigators, in August 2020, he and other protesters threw parts of paving slabs and other objects towards police cars.
He was released in November 2023, having served his entire sentence as determined by the court.
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Boris was arrested in June 2021 as part of a criminal case opened over the events of August 2020. He was convicted of participating in a protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Grodno after the results of the presidential election were announced. Boris was sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional facility, he was released from custody in the courtroom before the verdict came into force.
Boris is characterized as a very kind and sympathetic person who always helps others and cannot refuse anyone.
Left Belarus.
In February 2025, as part of a special proceeding against Boris, a court hearing was held in absentia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Yuzef, a pensioner, was detained after participating in the "March of Unity" action, which took place on September 6, 2020, in Grodno. He was charged under articles on participation in group actions that violate public order and on the use of violence or the threat of its use against a police officer - because he defended a woman from the brutal actions of riot police.
Initially, Yusef was sentenced to restricted freedom in an open-type institution, but after an appeal by the prosecutor's office, the sentence was reviewed, and ultimately he was sentenced to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
He was released in July 2022, having served his full sentence.
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Vasily was detained and convicted under the article on "hooliganism" for allegedly using violence against aggressive supporters of Lukashenko and activists of the "Anti-Vandal" movement - Alexander Galakhov and Olga Bondareva, when they painted over the image of the white-red-white flag. Vasily did not admit guilt and refused to give the last word.
In April 2022, the court considered the appeal, as well as the prosecutor's appeal against the verdict in this case. The court did not satisfy Vasily's appeal, but partially satisfied the prosecutor's protest, replacing the punishment from imprisonment without referral to imprisonment with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In July of the same year, the court granted Olga Bondareva’s civil claim and ordered Vasily to pay her compensation.
He was released in January 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Alla was convicted of participating in a protest against violence in the country and the falsification of the presidential elections - the Unity March, which took place in Grodno on September 6, 2020.
Galina was detained and convicted for participating in a protest against violence in the country and the falsification of the presidential elections - the Unity March, which took place in Grodno on September 6, 2020.
According to human rights activists, she was released in January 2024, having fully served her sentence imposed by the court.
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Andrei was arrested and convicted in a criminal case following a protest that took place in Grodno on September 6, 2020, against violence and the results of the presidential election. He was accused of "intending to hurt 11 riot police officers out of revenge and threatening their personal safety."
He was released in December 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Vadim was detained and convicted under the article "hooliganism" after an incident in a park where he was hanging white ribbons. Olga Bondareva, a representative of the "Antivandal-Grodno" movement, began filming him on her phone and stalking him, which provoked a conflict.
He was released on January 17, 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Ten days after her release, Olga Bondareva went to court to recover compensation for moral damages from Vadim.
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Anna was detained and convicted for participating in a protest against violence in the country and the falsification of the presidential elections - the Unity March, which took place in Grodno on September 6, 2020.
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Yuri was convicted for participating in a protest that took place on September 6, 2020 in Grodno against the falsification of the presidential elections and violence in the country.
He was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Vladimir was convicted for participating in a protest that took place on September 6, 2020 in Grodno against the falsification of the presidential elections and violence in the country.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Zhanna was convicted for participating in a protest held on September 6, 2020 in Grodno against the falsification of the presidential elections and violence in the country. She was sentenced to serve her sentence in an open-type correctional facility, after which she had to leave Belarus.
In 2024, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Zhanna as part of a special proceeding and she had been convicted in absentia under the article on “assistance to extremist activity.”
Sergei was arrested and convicted for participating in and resisting a protest that took place in August 2020 in Grodno.
In November 2021, his punishment was increased and he was transferred to prison.
According to human rights activists, he was released at the end of spring 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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Konstantin was arrested and convicted for using violence against traffic police officers during the dispersal of a protest that took place in Grodno on August 13, 2020.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Alexey is an IT engineer with an excellent education and a gold medal for graduating from a physics and mathematics school. He has a disability due to joint damage caused by hemophilic polyarthropathy.
On December 3, 2020, he was arrested and convicted of “threatening to use violence and insulting a government official.”
On August 26, 2023, he was released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.
| 18.05.2021 | patronymic Aleksandrovich |