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Vladimir was convicted in December 2020 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." He was accused of "calling for violent actions against police and riot police officers using a sound-amplifying device" on August 21, 2020, at Independence Square near the Lenin monument in Minsk. During his arrest, Vladimir suffered a heart attack, after which he was placed on a third-degree disability.
In the summer of 2023, Vladimir's sentence, imposed by the court, ended.
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Dmitry was convicted for a conflict with traffic police officers during the brutal dispersal of a protest that took place in Grodno on August 13, 2020.
Maxim was found guilty in November 2020 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" for standing up for a girl carrying a white-red-white flag who was being beaten by security forces during the dispersal of a peaceful protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Slonim.
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Sergei was found guilty in October 2020 of "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order." The pensioner was accused of threatening riot police with a knife when they broke down his apartment door after he called the police and asked them to prosecute Lukashenko for insulting Viktor Babaryka. Sergei was shot in the chest with a pump-action shotgun for this.
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Evgeny, a pensioner with a third-degree disability and a two-time stroke survivor, was found guilty in August 2021 of a criminal case brought for insulting Lukashenko. The criminal case was initiated following a call to 911, during which, according to Interior Ministry employee Ovsiyenko, Evgeny "intended to insult Lukashenko and portray him in a humiliating position in the eyes of the general public."
Maxim was found guilty in July 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official." According to the indictment, on March 20, 2021, Maxim left a comment on the Telegram channel "Punisher Belarus" under a post featuring a photo of riot police officer Igor Monakhov, containing the word "s***," with the intent to publicly insult.
Artur was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left in September 2020 on a publication featuring a photograph of Interior Ministry spokesperson Olga Chemodanova.
Ruslan was found guilty in May 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment published on the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel about A.F. Olshevsky, deputy chief and head of the public safety police at the Partizansky District Department of Internal Affairs in Minsk.
Ruslan was found guilty again in September 2021 in a criminal case opened under the article "insulting a government official" for a comment left in October 2020 on the same Telegram channel addressed to Vladimir Kozlovsky, assistant to the head of the Leninsky District Police Department in Grodno, who was allegedly beaten at a campaign picket, after which Sergei Tikhanovsky was detained.
Following the examination of two criminal cases, Ruslan was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility, as well as to pay a large amount of compensation for moral damages.
Victoria was found guilty of "desecration of state symbols." According to investigators, she altered the image of the national emblem and used it as the logo for her Telegram and YouTube channels, as well as in published videos, which, according to investigators, constituted "an act of blasphemy and an attempt to draw attention to her channel."
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Andrei was found guilty in July 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a post about police captain Sergei Shramov and about a district police inspector, police captain Alexander Shlupakov.
The Odnoklassniki post was dedicated to how police officers confiscated red-and-white balloons hanging in a local resident's home during a search in the city of Dubrovno, after which he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.
Sergei was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a judge for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding M. Yu. Filatov, a judge of the Lida District Court of the Grodno Region. The comment, according to the prosecution, was offensive and degrading to the honor and dignity of the judge.
Denis was found guilty in June 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left about Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs. Volnich, who had used a knee chokehold on a detained participant during the dispersal of a solidarity chain, was holding him in a chokehold.
Marina was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki addressed to Yuri Chernyshkov, an operative of the Drogichin District Police Department. The comment was posted under a post alleging that Chernyshkov had punched and kicked a girl on a square in Drogichin on August 10, 2020, and then "handed her over" to riot police.
Natalia was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding the leadership of the Dubrovensky District Department of Internal Affairs.
Vitaly was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding Svetlogorsk District Police Department traffic police inspector, Major A.V. Bagraenko. According to the prosecution, the comment contained a negative assessment of the "victim."