At the end of 2020, he left a comment in the telegram channel that humiliated the dignity of Interior Minister Yuri Karayev. Also, according to the prosecution's version, Larin left a comment about Lukashenko — the post was found offensive. And on February 24, 2022, Larin spoke about a special military operation in the courtyard telegram chat of the Malinovka microdistrict. The comments themselves were not voiced at the trial.
At the trial, the political prisoner admitted his guilt and confirmed that he had indeed left comments.
09.15.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
Trial outcome 22.09.2022:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Law enforcement officers associated the lawyer's detention with the protection of political prisoners of the anarchist movement activists.
Mikhail was immediately sentenced to 15 days in the court of the Frunzensky district of Minsk under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code. After that, he was charged under part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.
On November 3, 2022, the Ministry of Justice deprived Mikhail of his license due to disciplinary penalties and for committing offenses incompatible with the title of a lawyer.
In June 2023 he was released after the expiration of the sentence.
Ivar has been in custody since 25 April. He was accused of leaving Ivar on August 28, 2020, in a state of alcoholic intoxication, according to the court, an offensive comment in Odnoklassniki under the photo of the deputy head of the police department for ideological work and staffing. The man fully admitted his guilt and repented of his deed.
Also, monetary compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of 1,000 rubles was recovered from Ivar.
On January 24, 2023, a trial to commute Sergei's sentence was held in the Kamenets District Court. Judge OksanaShkel rejected the Correctional Institution's motion to transfer him to a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2025.
In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family : Yan, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich. Anastasia was released. And Yan and Ales were transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1. During the detention, Ales' phone and equipment were taken away. As a result, one photo from the 2020 march was found. For it, the guy was given 2 years in prison.
Ales has been interested in music since childhood, - says the brother of the political prisoner. - He knows many Belarusian performers, played with some of them. For example, he performed with cover bands in Minsk clubs, performed with the group "D-Major" as a violinist. The last two years before his arrest were especially creative for Ales - he wrote several lyrics for songs, music for them, made recordings. Ales sings in Belarusian.
10.06.2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Stepan is 23 years old, he is a resident of Novolukoml. He was accused of having made extremist inscriptions on the pipeline of the Lukoml power station in March of this year, and two months later painted images of white-red-white and blue-yellow flags on the surface of an artillery piece installed on the territory of a military burial in the village of Starie Lavki of the Chashniki district.
Trial outcome 26.08.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was the director and head coach of the branch of the kickboxing and Thai boxing club "Patriot" in Borisov.
Sentenced to 2 months of arrest for posting a caricature of A.G. Lukashenko on the VKontakte social network on August 17, 2020, which allegedly "in its semantic content reflected a negative assessment of the personality" of A.G. Lukashenko, as well as "sharp criticism of the socio-political situation". According to the expert who conducted the "forensic cultural examination", the caricature discredited the state power in the person of A.G. Lukashenko.
After his release, Nikolai was brought to administrative responsibility in May 2023 for storing Belsat's publication on a page on the Odnoklassniki social network. Nikolai did not admit guilt. He was sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
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