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Igor was found guilty in January 2022 of a criminal case brought under the article "desecration of structures and damage to property" for painting approximately 50 inscriptions and images, including "Long Live Belarus," "3%," and white-red-white flags, on infrastructure facilities and garages of the Substroy consumer cooperative.
Sergei was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
In January 2022, he was convicted of participating in a gang fight during a post-election protest that took place in Minsk from August 9 to 10, 2020, and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Valentin was arrested in August 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under three criminal articles.
In January 2022, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony for "social media posts calling for street protests and active resistance if they were suppressed," as well as for filming a protest on August 12, 2020, on Cosmonauts Avenue in Grodno, a video of which he posted online with his own commentary.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
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Convicted under Article 364, Article 369, Article 368, Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. It is known that the man worked in a taxi, and was also a driver at various enterprises.
He was previously convicted of participating in protest actions under an administrative article.
Initially, a criminal case was opened against Lyudmila for "insulting government officials," but it was later reclassified as "slander." The charges stemmed from a repost.
In December 2020, Lyudmila saw a post about local police officer Sergei Urodnich on the "Black Book of Belarus" Telegram channel and reposted it to the "Pruzhany/Pruzhana" chat with the caption: "Our handsome guy."
In court, she stated, "Your president calls you 'handsome,' and I called him the same thing your president calls him. How did I insult him?" She pleaded not guilty and refused to testify.
In May 2022, Lyudmila was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility, and was also ordered to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victim."
The period of "house arrest" ended in 2023.
After serving her sentence, the pressure on Lyudmila did not cease, and she was forced to leave Belarus.
Vadim was removed from the Moscow-Grodno train in Orsha on November 19, 2021, and detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
In February 2022, he was convicted of participating in a protest that took place on September 6, 2020, in Grodno near the Brest supermarket and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
He was released in December 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Vitaly was found guilty of insulting the chief and deputy chief of the Khotsimsk traffic police.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Denis was found guilty in August 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left in the "Baranovichi Free" Telegram chat under a video featuring former Interior Minister Yuri Karaev.
He was released in October 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Evgeny was arrested on December 8, 2021, and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. The arrest was precipitated by the discovery of a wallet with a Pogonya logo during a search. Evgeny was not released after serving his administrative arrest, as a criminal case had been opened against him for "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation therein."
In March 2022, Yevhen was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in Minsk on October 25, 2020. Photos from the protest were found on his mobile phone, showing him with a white-red-white flag draped over his shoulders.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In October 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing a restriction of freedom with a referral to an open-type correctional facility with imprisonment.
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Programmer. Arrested on January 12, 2022.
The case on replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony was heard on February 26, 2025, in the Pukhovichi District Court.
Most likely, Ilya is outside the Republic of Belarus.
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Leonid, a Russian citizen, was arrested in August 2021 on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in the 2020 post-election protests in Minsk and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in the fall of 2022, having fully served his sentence, and deported from Belarus with a one-year entry ban.
Alexey was arrested in August 2021 on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in the 2020 post-election protests in Minsk and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In February 2025, a court hearing in absentia was held within the framework of special proceedings on the issue of increasing the severity of the punishment.
Convicted for participating in a chain of vehicles during protests.
He is expected to be released on September 6, 2024.
Sergei was found guilty in January 2022 in a criminal case opened for online comments published after the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment without being sent to an open correctional facility, as well as a large fine.
Leonid was found guilty in January 2022 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
In November 2024, a court hearing was held for Igor Nikolaevich Volnich "on compensation for moral damages caused as a result of a crime." It is unknown whether this was the same claim for compensation awarded in January 2022, or whether this was a new incident.