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Olga, a blogger and designer, has been repeatedly persecuted and detained under administrative articles following the events that followed the 2020 elections in Minsk. In May 2021, her home was searched, after which Olga was detained as part of a criminal case opened on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." Before that, she was already a suspect under two articles of the Criminal Code - "insulting a judge" and "slandering an election commission employee."
In December of the same year, Olga was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
She was released in June 2022, having served her full sentence as determined by the court.
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Victor is an entrepreneur involved in website development.
After the protests began and the first deaths occurred in 2020, he tried to make it difficult for special equipment to disperse the demonstrators by scattering screws several times at the exit from the building where the special border unit was stationed.
For this, Viktor was convicted under the article “hooliganism” and sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In April 2022, the punishment was toughened: restriction of freedom was replaced by imprisonment. His mother, Galina Sergeevna Parkhimchik, who was subsequently also subjected to repression, acted as his defense attorney.
During his imprisonment, Viktor was held in a number of institutions: the temporary detention facility on Okrestina, Pre-trial Detention Center No. 8, Pre-trial Detention Center No. 5, Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1, Pre-trial Detention Center No. 7, the temporary detention facility in the city of Kamenets, Correctional Institution No. 45, and IK-17.
On September 14, 2022, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Today, Victor continues to work in the field of web development and is open to professional cooperation.
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Vladislav was detained in September 2020. He was brutally beaten during his detention, and his house was searched. He was sentenced to 13 days of administrative arrest, but was not released after serving his sentence. Vladislav was convicted of participating in protests that took place in Minsk from August 9 to 11 and September 13, 2020. According to the case materials, he planned to participate in the protests by discussing routes and actions in the event of detention in the Telegram chat "Chas X". The investigation claimed that an attack on police officers was being prepared.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2025, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Emil was detained in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place on September 23, 2020, in Minsk. He was convicted under three criminal articles, including "resisting a police officer." According to the charges, he called for participation in mass riots, which were allegedly planned in advance under the guise of mass events, blocked communications, and resisted by blocking the door, holding onto the steering wheel and refusing to get out of the car.
According to human rights activists, he was released in June 2025, having fully served his sentence.
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Valery was detained on April 29, 2021, as part of a criminal case opened after a protest action, the March of Heroes, which took place in Minsk on September 13, 2020. He was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order."
In July 2022, his sentence was changed and he was transferred to “house arrest” due to health reasons.
Yuri was detained on April 9, 2021, by GUBOPiK officers at his workplace, after which his home was searched. He was taken to an unknown building, where, under threats to his life and that of his family, he was beaten and forced to record a video confessing to participating in a protest on September 23, 2020, in the Serebryanka microdistrict of Minsk. Yuri was then taken to the Investigative Committee, where, under the supervision of officers, he wrote a confession.
He was later convicted under the article “participation in group actions that grossly violate public order” and sentenced to restricted freedom.
Before he began serving his sentence, he managed to leave Belarus.
Vadim was arrested in April 2021 and convicted for participating in a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Minsk against the falsification of the presidential election results.
In November and December 2024, as well as in February 2025, in absentia court hearings were held regarding Vadim “on replacing the restriction of freedom without sending him to an open-type correctional facility.”
Andrei was detained in April 2021 and convicted for participating in a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Minsk against the falsification of the presidential election results.
In November and December 2024, as well as in February 2025, Andrei was tried in absentia “on replacing the restriction of freedom without sending him to an open-type correctional facility.”
Diana was convicted of the fact that, according to the case materials, at the beginning of February 2021, at night, she painted a drawing on the facade of the transformer substation building - the symbol of the united headquarters, thereby causing property damage to RUE Minskenergo.
During the investigation, Diana was dismissed by mutual agreement.
Dmitry was convicted of the fact that, according to the case materials, at the beginning of February 2021, at night, he painted a drawing on the facade of the transformer substation building - the symbol of the united headquarters, thereby causing property damage to RUE Minskenergo.
During the investigation, Dmitry was fired from his job.
On May 26, 2023, he was released under an amnesty.
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Evgeny was detained in the courtroom as part of a criminal case brought against members of the "Army with the People" Telegram channel and convicted of "preparing to participate in mass riots."
In September 2025, he was released, having served his full sentence.
He was released in September 2025, having served his full sentence.
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Yevgeny was convicted for participating in a protest action - the March for the Liberation of Political Prisoners, which took place on October 4, 2020 in Minsk, during which he struck the outer cell of the temporary detention facility on Okrestina Street twice. However, there was no damage to the cell.
Released in September 2021 as part of a pardon.
Vyacheslav was detained at his home on March 10, 2021. After waiting for his parents to leave, the security forces broke down the door, conducted a search without their presence, put Vyacheslav on the floor and beat him.
He was accused of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in August–September 2020 against election fraud and violence by security forces. Vyacheslav was convicted under the article on “group actions grossly violating public order” and sentenced to a restriction of freedom.
In June 2022, his punishment was toughened, and he was transferred to a penal colony before the end of his term.
He was released in March 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Matvey, a freight forwarder and student at the Minsk College of Entrepreneurship, was convicted for participating in a protest action, the March for the Liberation of Political Prisoners, which took place on October 4, 2020, in Minsk.
In December 2024, it became known that a court hearing in absentia was held regarding Matvey to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Artem, a student, was first detained and severely beaten after a protest, the Pensioners' March, in November 2020. He was then sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article.
However, on March 24, 2021, during the days of mass preventive detentions before Freedom Day, he was arrested again early in the morning in a dormitory, allegedly because of a flag he had spotted, and sentenced to 25 days of administrative arrest. But the very next day, a video appeared on the Telegram channel of the propagandist Azarenka, in which Artem confessed to administering the public page. It later became known that he was beaten with truncheons to force him to record this confession.
He was never released, as a criminal case was opened against him. Artem was subsequently convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and "creation of an extremist group."
Released in January 2025 as part of a pardon.