All persecuted

A Russian citizen. According to the prosecution , Alexander was intoxicated when, on the night of June 19, 2023, he allegedly first tore down a flag attached to the wall of a store. He then removed another flag from a building in Minsk near a metro station and handed it to a metro employee. He then allegedly removed a flag from the façade of a Belpochta branch building and left it at the entrance. Finally, he allegedly tore down another flag, threw it at a public transport stop, and set it on fire. That same night, Alexander allegedly set fire to a plastic waste container. Alexander Smirnov pleaded not guilty during his trial. He said he tore down the flags while intoxicated because he wanted to keep a memento of his time in Belarus and hang them in his home. He had no intention of desecrating state symbols. He accidentally set fire to one of the flags, and was not even present at the scene of one of the incidents. Alexander noted that he gave preliminary testimony regarding this episode under physical and emotional pressure from police officers .

Alexander has a criminal record: in April 2023, he was convicted under Part 1 of Article 205 (theft) and Part 1 of Article 339 (hooliganism) and sentenced to three months in jail. He was released after serving his sentence.

In April 2026, he was released , having fully served his sentence.

Maxim is currently undergoing compulsory military service in a military unit in Borisov.

According to the prosecution , Maxim, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, loudly shouted, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”

In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.

According to the prosecution , Artur Panchenko, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, shouted loudly, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”

In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.

Arthur served under contract in a military unit as a senior fire rescuer of the military fire protection and rescue team in Zhlobin.

A worker of the Svarmetprofil enterprise Alexander Nikonov, who was detained at the end of June 2023. It is known that he was accused of “insulting A. Lukashenka” and “slandering A. Lukashenko” because he marked “Class” under a post in the public STOP LUKA on the Odnoklassniki social network.

The harsh sentence in the criminal case is retaliation by the authorities for participating in a peaceful protest on August 9, 2020, against the results of the presidential election in the Republic of Belarus and serving on the strike committee at BMZ.

Recently, most of those convicted in Zhlobin under the same article received restricted freedom without being sent to open institutions. However, Alexey Avdeyev's case was handled very harshly. Two weeks before his criminal case was heard, the Zhlobin District Court deliberated an administrative case against the young man under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus.

Alexey is known for his active volunteer work during the COVID-19 pandemic, his role as one of the first to go on strike after the 2020 elections, his time coaching teenagers interested in motorsports and cross-country racing, and his own motorcycle construction.

On January 10, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

He was released in November 2025, having served his full sentence.

On 27.10.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

He is expected to be released in mid-June 2024.

According to the prosecution, after viewing a photograph posted in the public domain on Odnoklassniki with fixed text, where the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality was humiliated in an indecent form and he was accused of committing a particularly serious crime (murder), Kozlovskaya posted the photograph on her page on the same social network, open for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of readers.

In court, Olga said that she sent a letter to Alexander Lukashenko, in which she apologized to him.

According to human rights activists, she was released in December 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.

Yegor was accused of tearing down the flag from the Euroopt store on the night of July 2-3. As the guy explained, he was drunk, walking with friends. He saw the flag, jumped up, grabbed a tree. The flagpole suddenly broke, its remnants were left hanging on the wall. He and his friends left the scene. On July 3, 2023, Yegor was detained by the police and placed in pre-trial detention. At the trial, the prosecutor announced the amount of "damage" from Zhukov's actions: 21 rubles.

27-year-old Ruslan tore off the state flag from one of the stores in Pruzhany, after which he threw it on the ground. This was qualified as "desecration of state symbols."

Convicted for his comments. Alexander has two minor daughters.

According to human rights activists , he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Denis Khokhlov has lived in Russia since February 2023, he went there because he was afraid of persecution in his homeland. From Russia, he was going to leave for Georgia, but in June 2023 he was detained in Kabardino-Balkaria because he was on the interstate wanted list at the request of Belarus.

Denis is the stepfather of Vladislav Lagutenko, who has already been sentenced for participating in the protests to two years of home chemistry.

Since there is no analogue of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation, and for walking on the roads during protests there is only an administrative punishment, the terms of which Denis has long expired, the Russian prosecutor's office refused to deport.

But in another court, where the man was brought on July 13, he was given an administrative fine for “exceeding the maximum period of stay in Russia without registration.” The man was not released from custody .
He was re-detained and placed in the Center for temporary stay of foreigners. As evidence that Denis should be kept in detention until deportation, he was wanted in Belarus, despite the fact that under Russian law he is completely innocent. Complaints and appeals to the official bodies, which were written by Russian human rights activists, did not give any result. Denis will be taken to Belarus.

On January 18, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict was left unchanged.

Nikolai was repeatedly tried for “unauthorized picketing,” and in March 2022, the man was arrested for 20 days for calling for participation in the protest on February 27. He was detained at home by five security officers wearing bulletproof vests.

On December 5, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.

On 21.11.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, he was released in February 2025.

The man was accused of writing a telegram comment about a certain Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus on June 23, 2022. In the commentary, the examination found a “negative assessment” of the minister, expressed “in a non-standard form.”

10/06/2023 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.