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Pavel was arrested on June 17, 2021, in connection with a criminal case involving group actions grossly violating public order. In September of that year, he was convicted of participating in the post-election protests that took place in Minsk in August 2020.
Dmitry was convicted for a comment on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" under a photo of Valeria Taratynko, Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the Frunzensky District of Minsk. According to the prosecution, the comment humiliated her honor and dignity.
David was convicted of insulting former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alexander Barsukov in a Telegram chat and sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral.
It is known that on October 30, 2022, the political prisoner was detained in a penal colony and sentenced to six days of arrest under an administrative charge for "disseminating extremist materials."
He was released in June 2023, having fully served his sentence.
On July 14, 2021, Andrei was convicted of three counts of insulting government officials, judges, and Lukashenko. The charges included statements made against Nikolai Karpenkov, Lidiya Yermoshina, Alina Kasyanchik, Vadim Denisenko, Viktor Stashenko, as well as judges Marina Zapasnik and Natalia Buguk.
According to human rights activists, Andrei was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
In February 2024, it became known that he was being tried again, this time on charges of “extremism.”
Andrei was first convicted in March 2021 for "insulting Lukashenko" and "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral. However, he didn't have time to serve his sentence in a correctional facility: on May 4, 2021, he was arrested on three additional criminal charges.
In August of that year, Andrei was convicted again – again for insulting Lukashenko – and sentenced to imprisonment.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Leonid was found guilty of participating in an unauthorized protest in Minsk on September 20, 2020, by stepping onto the roadway, shouting slogans, and clapping, thereby grossly disturbing public order. He was also charged with obstructing public transportation on several streets, which resulted in the shutdown of traffic, including public transportation.
In December 2024, a court hearing was held in absentia as part of a special proceeding to replace the restriction of freedom with a sentence of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Alexander was convicted for a comment under a post about Sergei Stashevsky, head of the Oktyabrsky District Administration in Vitebsk, who, according to the publication, forced teachers to rewrite election protocols. This was not the first trial in Vitebsk for insulting Stashevsky.
According to human rights activists, Alexander was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
In the summer of 2021, Dmitry was accused of insulting government officials via the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel. The victims were police officers Dmitry Dedyun and Nikita Mikhalochkin; Dedyun demanded 2,000 rubles in compensation. Dmitry had previously been sentenced to two years of restricted freedom under the same article. The verdict in the second case was to be handed down after the appeal hearing of the first verdict, which took place on August 17 of that year. However, the outcome of the second case is still unknown.
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In 2021, Yuri was accused of publicly insulting Lukashenko while in a hospital in Chechersk.
In June 2022, he was charged with malicious disobedience to the demands of the correctional facility administration. Three days before his release, he was found guilty and sentenced to mandatory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. On July 1, 2022, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court under his first conviction.
From August 2022, by court order, he was held in the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health and was released in September 2023.
Ilya was accused of publicly expressing a harsh and negative assessment of Lukashenko on a trolleybus on April 16, 2021, which, according to the prosecution, harmed his honor and dignity and was aimed at undermining his authority.
He was released in October 2021, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
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Denis was convicted on June 23, 2021, for commenting on riot police actions against civilians.
In the spring of 2024, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Maxim was convicted in 2021 of "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open-type facility.
In July 2022, he was released under pardon.
In February 2024, a court hearing was held on three charges: "desecration of buildings and damage to property" and "illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances." The details of the case and the outcome of the trial are unknown.
Ivan was convicted of reposting posts about police officers on the social network Odnoklassniki and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open-type facility.
According to human rights activists, he was released in July 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Svetlana is the mother of political prisoner Igor Yermolov, sentenced to five years in a maximum-security penal colony for "preparing for mass unrest." She was accused of insulting a Minsk riot police officer, citing a Facebook comment she allegedly left, and sentenced to restricted freedom and compensation for moral damages.
Tatyana was detained along with her husband after a search of their apartment by KGB officers on charges of violating three criminal statutes, including "an act of terrorism."
She was released on July 29, 2021.