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Natalia was accused of slandering the Prosecutor General of Belarus Andrei Shved and sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral. According to the investigation, on February 1, 2021, she wrote from her mobile phone in the public chat "Kuluary KYKY" under a post about increasing responsibility for extremism that "the Prosecutor General is a criminal", thereby disseminating false information. Shved estimated the moral damage at 10,000 rubles, the court reduced the amount of compensation by only 1,000 rubles.
Natalia left Belarus before she began serving her sentence.
In January 2025, as part of a special proceeding on Natalia's case, a court hearing in absentia was held to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Maxim was convicted for a comment left on August 12, 2020, in the Slonim for Life Telegram chat under a photo of a police officer. He was initially given "house arrest," but the appellate court replaced the sentence with restriction of freedom with a referral. His pregnant wife was left at home.
He was released in July 2022, having fully served his sentence.
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Egor is a former investigator, worked for the Investigative Committee for more than six years, dealt with economic crimes. In 2019, he quit, took up sports analytics and planned to move to IT.
On June 11, 2021, he was detained in a criminal case initiated under the article “Active participation in actions that grossly violate public order,” and on October 8 of the same year, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
The basis for the charges were photographs from the Marches of August 23 and 30, 2020 in Minsk, which were given to the security forces by a man who had previously been involved in a case investigated by Yegor himself.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Ilya was detained in October 2020 and convicted of participating in a protest against the falsification of the presidential elections, which took place on the night of August 9-10, 2020. According to the prosecution, he was on the roadway near the architectural complex "Minsk - Hero City" and participated in group actions together with other protesters. He was also accused of shouting slogans, loudly clapping his hands and disobeying demands to stop such actions. Ilya himself only admitted the fact of being present at the scene of the events, but denied that his actions could have led to the stoppage of public transport.
He was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served his sentence as assigned by the court.
Sergei was convicted for a comment left on the social network VKontakte addressed to the official Stashevsky, and sentenced to restricted freedom.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Evgeny was convicted in April 2021 of desecration of the national flag for yanking a flag hanging on a shopping mall and causing it to fall.
He was released in September of the same year as part of a pardon.
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Aleksander, a football player for the Krumkachyov club, a journalist for Tribuna.com and the author of the YouTube channel ChestnOK, was detained at home on June 3, 2021. He was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - allegedly for the flag on the window, but after serving his term he was not released and transferred to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case on "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order." In January 2022, Oleksandr was sentenced to imprisonment.
He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Andrey, a lawyer, was first detained on the night of August 9-10, 2020, beaten and placed in the Zhodino temporary detention facility for three days, after which he was convicted under an administrative article.
On October 25, 2020, after another rally, he was detained again by GUBOPiK officers. Andrey spent three days in the temporary detention facility on Okrestina, and then a criminal case was opened against him under the article "Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
According to the prosecution, he joined a group of citizens, shouted slogans with obscene language, clapped his hands, moved along the roadway, waved his arms and a white-red-white flag. The court sentenced him to restriction of freedom with direction. Minsktrans filed a lawsuit for 62,096 rubles 66 kopecks. Andrey's accounts were frozen, property was seized.
On December 9, 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Vadim was accused of publishing a post from his mobile phone "with the aim of influencing public consciousness and undermining the authority of the authorities." The post included a photo of the local police officer Kayach with an obscene caption containing words beginning with the letters "g" and "e."
In the spring of 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Viktor was convicted of the fact that, according to the indictment, on February 27, 2021, with the intent to publicly insult government official Dmitry Leshko, he posted a comment on a publication on Odnoklassniki regarding a police major - "s******* g****k".
According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Sergei, a pensioner, was first convicted in the summer of 2021.
According to the prosecution, on December 9, 2020, he left a comment in one of the Odnoklassniki chats, "cop pig," under a post with an image of junior police lieutenant Mikhail Zharikov. The court sentenced him to restriction of freedom without direction.
In September of the same year, Sergei was convicted again, this time for a comment under a photograph of senior traffic police inspector M. Yu. Malakhevich, which, according to the court, contained offensive statements. Taking into account the previous sentence, the punishment was replaced with restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional facility.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2023, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Nadezhda was found guilty of the fact that from November 9 to 23, 2020, she intentionally and in an indecent manner posted a comment under a YouTube video in which the traffic police in Bobruisk seized a car without reason, with a negative assessment of government officials - police major Oleg Banduro, senior lieutenant Drozd and junior lieutenant Anisichkov - with the content "They are recruiting idiots", which harms their honor and dignity.
Rostislav was found guilty of insulting three employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs through comments on one of the Telegram channels recognized by the Belarusian authorities as extremist, and was sentenced to restriction of freedom with a referral.
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Dmitry, a student at the Lida Lyceum of Land Reclamation Construction, was convicted of allegedly acting in a group with others and throwing pieces of paving slabs and other objects at police cars. Dmitry partially admitted his guilt and was taken into custody in the courtroom.
According to human rights activists, he was released in June 2022, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Vladimir was detained and beaten in September 2020. He was convicted of participating in protests that took place in Minsk from August 9 to 11 and September 13, 2020. According to the case materials, he planned to participate in the protests, discussing routes and actions in case of detention in the Telegram chat "Chas X". The investigation claimed that an attack on police officers was being prepared.
He was released in September 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.