Ilya was arrested and convicted in the spring of 2023 for "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open-type institution.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
41 year old Anastasia has worked a lot of places, but the last known place of work is the director of the printing house of LLC «Electronic Agent».
The film on the ONT TV channel showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 in the house of Nastya and her husband Oleg Sychev in the garden association «Berezovaya Roshcha» in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).
A taxi driver who was harshly detained by riot police at the end of January 2023 while he was waiting for an order near the bus station. Friends had been waiting for Roman since “days”, as they knew that he was detained for old likes on the Odnoklassniki social network. But then it turned out that the man was detained under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 21, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to estimates, the human rights defender will be released at the end of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 17.04.2023:
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
According to the prosecution, Dzyuba left publications that humiliated the honor and dignity of Lukashenko and contained an obscene form of linguistic expression in relation to him.
He also posted publications with photos of policemen on social networks, accompanied them with a text with a negative assessment. Among them were images of employees of temporary detention facilities with a swastika, Lukashenko with an improvised gallows.
The man pleaded guilty in full. He said that he had reposted the information on Facebook.com.
All the victims stated that the publication caused them moral harm.
In the spring of 2024, he was releasedafter fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 14.03.2023:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to pro-government telegram channels, four people were detained - they are called a "sleeper cell of extremists" who had "external connections" with Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine. Among them is Igor.
All of them are from Gomel and, judging by their posts on social networks, have been friends for a long time, participating together in an international game of Beer Pong in Gomel.
After the brutal detention, the friends were forced to record a “repentance video” and say that they created a chat where they corresponded with each other, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they allegedly insulted Lukashenko several times in correspondence, and also wrote “wrong” comments. Another accusation is that the guys “had external connections” with Belarusian volunteers who are fighting for Ukraine. Apparently, this was the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article “promoting extremist activities.”
On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 01.03.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 10.05.2024
unknown.
Trial outcome 06.05.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Vladislav Bohan took an active part in the post-election protest held in the city on the night of August 9-10, 2020, blocked the way to vehicles, disobeyed the lawful demands of police officers, shouted slogans.
Trial outcome 31.03.2023
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the prosecution , on February 13, 2023, Igor Svirida, while in the Compulsory Enforcement Department (COI), “... provided a department employee with a handwritten explanation of the reasons for non-payment of fines imposed by the court for committing various administrative offenses, in which he deliberately and publicly wrote the text, in the content of which, in an offensive form, he expressed a negative assessment of the president’s personality, presented in the form of an obscene form of speech expression...”
On the same day, when a squad of employees of the Security Department was called to the enforcement department to detain him, he again publicly insulted A.G. Lukashenko. The investigation claims that Igor Svirida was allegedly intoxicated in the premises of the OPI.
During the court hearing, he partially admitted his guilt.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 29.03.2023:
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained on January 9, 2023 as part of a criminal case opened in Brest based on the events of September 13, 2020, when during a protest, people danced in a circle on the roadway (the so-called “round dance case”).
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2024after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome:
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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