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Leonid, a former employee of the Minsk Tractor Plant, was found guilty in December 2021 of "insulting a government official" for comments he left on Telegram about two riot police officers, Nikolai Yakimyuk and Nikita Saprankov.
Ruslan was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In November 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting social hatred and discord" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Mikhail Lapenas was detained on May 12, 2021. They are accused of insulting Yuri Karayev and calling for riots.
A witness at the trial stated that Mikhail called for participation in the actions, even invited him personally, and that he proposed to create a strike committee.
12/09/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
Roman was found guilty in September 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a video featuring Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, in which he pinned a detainee to the ground with his knee.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Olga was detained on November 22, 2021, at her workplace at the Ostrov Chistoty store. She was released that evening, but was detained again the following day and placed in pretrial detention.
In April 2022, Olga was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "desecration of buildings and damage to property," and was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
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A resident of Minsk. Father of 6 children: 4 boys and 2 girls, aged from 1 to 16 years.
Detained on December 7, 2021 for participating in protests on August 10, 2020 near a supermarket in «Riga», was identified on video. Convicted on June 16, 2022.
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Olga, a volunteer of the PSO "Angel", was detained and convicted for installing a scarecrow, which, according to investigators, resembled Lukashenko, in the district center on Varshavskoe Shosse.
Darya was found guilty in January 2021 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" for damaging the jacket of police officer Alexei Goryunov during a protest in Brest in the fall of 2020.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs press service, Alexey was arrested on charges of "financing protests." He allegedly received donations on his bank card and, between August 2020 and January 2021, helped pay protesters' fines.
He was released on bail.
In December 2021, Andrei was found guilty of insulting Vladimir Kozlovsky, a police officer from Grodno who fell during a brawl on May 29, 2020, at a picket to collect signatures for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's nomination as a presidential candidate.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In December 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a post about Andrei Komar, a senior police officer at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs. He was taken into custody in the courtroom immediately after the verdict was announced.
According to human rights activists, he was released in March 2024, having fully served his sentence.
According to the indictment, the man participated in the Unity March, which took place in Hrodna on September 6, 2020, at 13:20 he stood in a convoy near house No. 10 on Gornovykh Street. Avdik was held in custody from 6 to 16 September in a temporary detention center, then he was transferred to a Grodno prison. Released after expiration of sentence.
Alexander was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "hooliganism" and remanded in custody pending trial.
In December 2021, he was convicted of writing red and white graffiti and declaring his love for presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility.
In June 2022, the court ordered an increase in the sentence, replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment to be served in a penal colony until the end of the sentence.
Alexander was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
After his release, the persecution against Alexander did not stop; he was repeatedly subjected to searches and administrative arrests for “picketing.”
In the summer of 2023, he was placed in pretrial detention on a new criminal case, and in December of that year, he was found guilty of "rehabilitation of Nazism" and "hooliganism," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2026, having fully served his sentence.
Grigory was found guilty in December 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment he left on the social network Odnoklassniki on May 27, 2020, under a post that featured a photo of Komar, a senior district police officer at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs.
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A resident of Vitebsk, he recently worked in the Russian Federation.
Convicted for a comment on the social network Odnoklassniki, which was left on July 2, 2020 under a post about witness testimony in court against the innocent addressed to a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He wrote under the photo: "It's written on his forehead: complete scum."
He was brought to justice in March 2021 for symbols in an administrative case.