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Nina, director of the Angels Band investor association, was detained along with her husband, Vladimir Labkovich, a lawyer with the Viasna human rights center, on July 14, 2021, following a search of their apartment. Following the search, Nina was taken to the Financial Investigation Department and then to the Investigative Committee for questioning. She was subsequently remanded in custody as part of the criminal case.
Released on July 23, 2021.
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Elena, a human rights activist at the Viasna center, editor of the Belarusian Prison Literature book series, and co-author of the book Well, You Understand Everything Yourself!, also wrote letters to political prisoners.
She was detained on July 14, 2021, during a mass arrest of civil society representatives. Her home was searched, after which Elena was taken to the Investigative Committee and held in custody for 72 hours.
Released on July 17, 2021.
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Andrei, a human rights defender with the Viasna Center and coordinator of the "Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty in Belarus" campaign, was detained on July 14, 2021, during mass searches of civil society representatives. His home was searched, after which he was taken to the "Territory of Rights" site, where he was also searched.
Andrey was released on July 17, 2021.
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Evgenia, a volunteer with the human rights center "Vesna" and a Russian citizen, was detained as she left her home on July 14, 2021, and taken to the Investigative Committee as part of a criminal case.
She was released on July 17, 2021, on her own recognizance, remaining a suspect. She subsequently left Belarus.
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Viktor, a human rights activist with the organization "Viasna," was detained on July 14, 2021, following a search of his home. During the search, his computers and phones were seized. The office of Viasna's Grodno branch was also searched.
Released on July 16, 2021.
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Nikolai, the head of the Free Trade Union branch in Polotsk and a member of the Polotsk Human Rights Society, was searched on July 14, 2021, by officers from the Polotsk District Department of Internal Affairs as part of a criminal case opened on March 29, 2021, under the article "Desecration of buildings and damage to property."
After the search, three employees went with Nikolai to his office—the Center for Information and Legal Support for Socially Vulnerable Groups "Advocacy"—to conduct a search there.
Nikolai was detained for 72 hours, after which he was released.
Sergey, the director of the Supolnasts Center, was arrested on July 14, 2021, in a village where he was vacationing with his wife. His home was searched twice, and after questioning, he was detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the articles "Organization and preparation of actions grossly violating public order, or active participation in such actions" and "Tax and fee evasion."
After 72 hours, Sergei was released on bail.
Pavel was arrested on June 23, 2021, as part of a criminal case for participation in mass riots, initiated in connection with the events in Minsk in August 2020.
In October of the same year, he was convicted of participating in protests that took place on August 10–11, 2020, and sentenced to imprisonment.
He was released in March 2025, having fully served his sentence.
After his release, he was required to report regularly to the police, and his home was subject to nightly inspections. His parents' homes were also searched. Due to this persecution, Pavel left Belarus in late May 2025.
Pavel was convicted under the article "Hooliganism" and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility on charges of setting fire to the national red-green flag.
He began serving his sentence in June 2021. On August 1, 2022, a sentencing enhancement hearing was held, resulting in Pavel's sentence being changed to a prison colony.
As of early 2024, it was known that he continued to serve his sentence in the correctional facility.
According to human rights activists, Pavel was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his court-appointed sentence.
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Vyacheslav, an English teacher at Svisloch Secondary School No. 2, was accused of slandering Lukashenko. On August 20, 2020, the leadership of the Svisloch Executive Committee organized a meeting with residents, which Vyacheslav attended. It was the executive committee leadership that accused him of slandering Lukashenko at this meeting.
On June 30, 2021, the court sentenced Vyacheslav to imprisonment, and he was taken into custody in the courtroom.
In December 2022, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Yulia, a volunteer for the Country for Life foundation, was detained on July 9, 2021, as part of a "KGB operation to purge radicals" and placed in pretrial detention on charges of financing the activities of an extremist group.
In May 2022, the preventive measure was changed to a travel ban, after which Yulia left Belarus before the trial began.
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Marina, a confidant of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was detained on July 9, 2021, as part of a "KGB operation to purge radicals" and placed in pretrial detention on charges of financing the activities of an extremist group.
On November 10, 2021, the charge was reclassified to a more lenient charge—"training and preparing individuals to participate in actions that grossly violate public order, as well as their financing or other material support." After this, she was placed under house arrest.
On November 11, 2022, the court sentenced Marina to one and a half years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony, taking her into custody in the courtroom.
She was released in June 2023, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.
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Tatyana, a volunteer, was detained on July 9, 2021, during a "large-scale KGB operation to purge radicals" as part of a criminal case. Despite having a young son at home, she was transferred to a pretrial detention center and charged with "financing the activities of an extremist group."
In May 2022, the measure of restraint was changed to a written undertaking not to leave. Tatyana left Belarus before the trial began.
Olga, an accountant at Nasha Niva, was detained on July 8, 2021, in connection with a case of “group actions grossly violating public order,” and her apartment was searched.
Released on July 16, 2021.
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Andrey is the head of the advertising and marketing department of Nasha Niva, the author of the Nasha Gistoriya magazine. From 2006 to 2017, he was the editor-in-chief of the publication. On July 8, 2021, he was detained in a case of "group actions grossly violating public order." He was later charged under the article on "causing property damage without signs of theft" - for paying for utilities at rates for individuals instead of legal entities. The investigation calculated the damage at more than 10 thousand rubles.
In March 2022, he was sentenced to imprisonment, despite the fact that the damages were fully compensated.
In August 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.