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Vladislav was found guilty in June 2021 of desecrating state symbols and sentenced to three months in prison for tearing down the official flag of the Republic of Belarus from the building of the Mogilev City Museum in February.
He was released in July 2021, having fully served his sentence.
Sergei was found guilty in March 2021 of desecrating buildings and damaging property for spray-painting the numbers "3%" and "80%" onto asphalt pavement and a staircase during the 2020 protests in one of the city's residential areas.
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Mikhail was found guilty in May 2021 of assaulting an official, Minsktrans controller Pavel Maksimovich, and insulting Lukashenko.
According to the indictment, on September 23, 2020, at approximately 7:20 a.m., Mikhail was charged with fare evasion on trolleybus #27 at the "Mechanical and Technological College" stop in Minsk. Since he had no identification documents, he was asked to exit the trolleybus and await the arrival of the police. A conflict ensued between Mikhail and the inspector, during which, according to the prosecution, Mikhail used obscene language and expressed negative views toward the current government.
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According to the Prosecutor General's Office, between July 16 and August 12, 2020, Ivan "while intoxicated posted three videos publicly from his TikTok page to incite social hatred. The material presented in them fostered negative attitudes toward police officers and military command personnel, encouraging violent and aggressive actions."
The Prosecutor General's Office also states that he had previously been convicted 10 times.
Ivan was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "inciting hatred or discord" and sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Evgeny, a car mechanic, was found guilty of insulting a government official on October 19, 2020, for posting the following comment on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" under a photo of Sergei Zhuchkov, deputy commander of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee's OMON special police unit for ideological work and personnel support, in uniform: "Shit, not people."
He was released in June 2024, having fully served his sentence.
In the fall of 2021, Olga was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for reposting from an "extremist" channel. She was also found to have an image of Lukashenko and Belarusian officials in Nazi uniforms, which led to the criminal case. According to investigators, Olga posted this image in a closed chat more than a year ago.
In January 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony. Olga was taken into custody in the courtroom.
She was released in June 2023, having fully served her sentence.
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Andrei, the head of the Kromverk board game club and one of the organizers of the Unicon board game festival, was arrested in September 2021 as the administrator of a Telegram channel and convicted of an administrative offense. He was not released after this, but was transferred to a pretrial detention center on criminal charges of "insulting Lukashenko" and "insulting a government official."
In December 2021, Andrei was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility. After the verdict was announced, he was released from custody in the courtroom, but later that evening he was arrested again on a new charge of "insulting a government official" for online comments about Karpenkov, Kachanova, and others.
In March 2022, Andrei was again found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in February 2024, having fully served his sentence.
On August 10, 2021, Stanislav was detained for three days. During a search, marijuana was found on him, leading to a criminal case under the drug law. The court later found Stanislav guilty and sentenced him to restricted freedom and an open correctional facility.
After the verdict was announced, he was not released from pretrial detention but remained in custody in connection with a new criminal case opened under the article "inciting hatred." The charges stemmed from comments Stanislav, under the nickname "Partizan," left on September 24, 2020, in the Telegram chat "Brest 97%."
In January 2022, Stanislav was found guilty again and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in May 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Chairman of the primary trade union organization of the free union of metalworkers of the MAZ plant.
He was taken into custody on charges of preparing participants in mass riots and calling for restrictive measures (sanctions). The trial was held behind closed doors.
He is expected to be released on May 5, 2025.
Ruslan was found guilty in December 2021 in a criminal case brought for "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Nikolai was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" for a comment on the internet, and was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
He was released in May 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Anatoly was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" for comments he made online, and was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Nikolai was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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He was detained for comments he made in the Vitebsk 97 chat room about law enforcement officers during the events in Kazakhstan in January 2022.
A repentant video was published online, showing a naked young man apologizing for the comments he wrote.
He was released in September 2025, having served his full sentence.
Vladimir was found guilty in January 2022 of "insulting a government official" for comments he left in August 2020 on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photograph of two Grodno police officers beating a man.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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