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.
23.04.2025 She was sentenced to 2 years in prison for "slandering" Lukashenko. On August 20, 2025, she was pardoned (after serving 1 year and 9 months). She died in the spring of 2025. The official reason was that her heart gave out.
According to the case materials , in December 2022, Tamara Karavai posted slanderous information about Alexander Lukashenko on the Internet via a messenger on the Odnoklassniki social network.
At the court hearing, Karavai fully admitted her guilt, but refused to testify.
It is known that Tamara Karavai has a minor child in her care. She was released on July 20, 2024, by pardon.
Tamara died in the spring of 2025. The woman's acquaintances reported her death to Nasha Niva . The official reason was that her heart gave out. The exact date of death is unknown, but Tamara was last online on VKontakte on April 23, 2025.
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
Pavel was detained on March 10, 2023, according to the security forces, for registering with the Peramoga plan and for participating in protest chats on Facebook and Telegram. His niece is Karina Malinovskaya, who lost her baby after she was beaten in 2020. The girl left the country and "participated in the preparation of ByPOL".
"Regionalnaya Gazeta" is an independent publication covering events in four districts of the Minsk region (Molodechno, Vileika, Myadel and Volozhin) and three districts of the Grodno region (Smorgon, Oshmyany, Ostrovets).
In 2022, the site's materials were deemed "extremist materials." Law enforcement officials say the man will be tried for the texts he published.
On 23.01.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries. Among those released is Alexander Mantsevich.
Trial outcome 03.11.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 400 basic values fine.
The Prinesliks are parishioners of the New Life Church. The man was charged with participating in the protests. Elizaveta was left free because of her young daughter. However, the woman was restricted from leaving the country. Elizaveta is a well-known Instagram blogger , she has more than 50 thousand subscribers .
Trial outcome 29.05.2023
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 21.08.2024
unknown (trial in absentia).
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