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Anastasia was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Olga was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Boris was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Kirill was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Pavel was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Alexander was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
He was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Ekaterina was convicted in December 2021 in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, participants sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
She was found guilty of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
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Nikolai, a member of the United Civil Party, was arrested in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." The reason for his arrest, according to available information, was subscriptions to banned Telegram channels and photos from peaceful protests in August 2020 on social media. It is also known that he had already been detained and held for 24 hours during the previous presidential election.
In March 2022, after three months in prison, Nikolai was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
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Dmitry was found guilty in December 2021 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and "insulting a government official" for a comment left in the "Free Nesvizh" community addressed to Valery Troyanovsky, head of the Nesvizh District Department of Internal Affairs, which, according to the prosecution, contained a threat of violence against the victim.
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Anastasia was detained along with her mother in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was placed in pretrial detention.
In March 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to a term of imprisonment without being sent to an open correctional facility, and was released in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.
On September 20, 2023, Anastasia fully served her sentence of restricted freedom.
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Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a one-word comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki addressed to police officer Voynich.
Alexander has a third-degree disability and, at the time of the trial, was caring for his nearly blind 83-year-old father. Shortly before the trial, he refused hospitalization due to a pre-stroke condition, as he wanted to attend the court hearing in person. Nevertheless, the court sentenced him to restricted freedom and ordered him to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victim."
Andrei was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on TikTok about Sergei Lovchy, a juvenile affairs inspector, and Alexander Yesyulevich, a district police officer.
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Yuri was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki about Andrei Komar, a senior district police inspector at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs, under a post about the events at Sergei Tikhanovsky's picket.
Leonid, a former employee of the Minsk Tractor Plant, was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for comments he left on Telegram about two riot police officers, Nikolai Yakimyuk and Nikita Saprankov.
Olga was detained on November 22, 2021, at her workplace at the Ostrov Chistoty store. She was released that evening, but was detained again the following day and placed in pretrial detention.
In April 2022, Olga was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "desecration of buildings and damage to property," and was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.