Convicted on February 17, 2021 under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
creative director of the advertising agency Salmon Graphics.
He was charged for participating in the Sunday march on the sixth of September.
According to the Investigative Committee, Sergei Kostyukevich “disturbed public peace” in the center of Minsk, was in the front row of a mass event and “led a street procession, being one of the first to enter the roadway.” He was accused of blocking transport routes and disrupting public transport. In the Minsk resident’s phone they found messages “sent to administrators of radical Telegram channels” using a bot: there was information about the situation in the capital, the movement of special equipment, and the installation of fences.
02/27/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years in a penal labor facility
Entrepreneur. Convicted under Art. 293 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus .
According to human rights activists, he was released in March 2024 after the expiration of his sentence.
3,5 years in a medium-security prison
Maxim was sentenced on December 4, 2020 under Article 339 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for taking down a red and green flag at the station, and then, in self-defense, hitting a person who tried to call the police on him and took his personal belongings. In January 2024 he was transferred to prison regime.
4 years in a medium-security prison
He was detained on October 16, 2020. Charged under Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for the events in August. He did not admit guilt .
Released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
4 years in a medium-security prison
2 years in a penal labor facility
Convicted of a post in a social network 'Odnoklassniki' which was interpreted as an insult to Lukashenka.
Sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison.
Resident of Molodechno. Convicted under Articles 342 and 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for the events of August 9.
At the beginning of April 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Sentenced to 3,5 years in prison.
17 years old. Convicted under with Art. 342 and Art. 364 of the Criminal Code in Zhlobin.
Sentenced to 2 years in a juvenile colony.
Sentenced together with Eugene Kohanovskiy. Dzmitry Hopta is under surveillance at the psychiatrist. Taken into custody at the court on February, 5, 2021.
Sentenced to 2 years in prison.
He was detained and convicted for participating in protests that took place in Minsk on August 9-10, 2020, for blocking roads, erecting barricades, and for “throwing plants from flowerbeds at law enforcement officers.”
In mid-April 2022, it became known that Alexander's regime had been changed to a prison sentence for two years.
Released in August 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court
4 years in a medium-security prison
He was detained on November 15, 2020 and arrested for 15 days of administrative arrest for walking through the entire city with a white-red-white flag in memory of the murdered Roman Bondarenko , who was beaten by security forces in the courtyard near his home and died in the hospital from cerebral edema. However, after the arrest, Ruslan was not released, as a criminal case was opened against him, as a result of which he was convicted of "resisting an Interior Ministry officer."
On March 18, 2022, he was re -sentenced for "disobeying the demands of the administration of a correctional institution" to one year in prison.
At the end of July 2024, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
by adding up the terms: 4 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony
Swimming teacher. He was convicted of possessing a flammable mixture, which, according to the prosecution, he could have used to make a Molotov cocktail.
Released in December 2022 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
| 03.05.2021 | In pre-trial detention, he was on 2 profuchets, one of them was prone to extremism. From 21.04 transferred to IK 17 Shklov |
2 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
Director of the Horse&Vega concert agency. He was detained and convicted of trying to stop a traffic police car and prevent a collision with people during a protest rally that took place from August 9 to 10, 2020 in Minsk.
In the fall of 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
Alexey was detained on September 22, 2020 for participating in the Justice March that took place on September 20 in Gomel, and received 15 days of administrative arrest. Later, a criminal case was opened against him, as a result of which he was convicted of delivering “in an undetected manner one blow to the back of the right leg” of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
On July 28, 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
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3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
Artem was detained and convicted of spraying a gas canister towards plainclothes security forces at a Sunday march that took place on October 25, 2020 in Vitebsk.
On August 4, 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
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