Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric

According to the prosecution, Gerasimovich desecrated the national flag by pulling the flag by its cloth while intoxicated and throwing it to the ground. After that, the flag was damaged and its staff was destroyed. The property damage to the organization on whose building the flag hung was estimated at 89 rubles - that is how much the accused must pay in compensation.

The man admitted his guilt in full and said that he pulled the flag by accident so as not to fall. He had no intention of desecrating the state symbol of Belarus.

The court considered that if the accused did not admit to intentionally desecrating the flag, he did not fully understand his responsibility and did not repent, so he decided to impose a punishment associated with imprisonment. Although the expert concluded that the accused suffers from chronic alcoholism and needs compulsory treatment.

On 03.03.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Convicted for a comment deemed threatening.

He ran the travel agency "Studio Travel", and was a lawyer by education. Anton has a daughter who was born after he was detained.

Anton was convicted for photos from the protests that he had on his mobile phone, but in which he was not present. And also for an episode with a scuffle with a security officer in the metro, where passengers prevented the detention and beating of a person after a protest. Anton got on video by accident and was detained and convicted 2 years later.

On 21.03.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

The charges are based on comments Kotov allegedly left in so-called extremist Telegram channels over the course of a month and a half following the 2020 presidential elections. There, Lukashenko's regime investigators allegedly found all the crimes listed above.

It is also known that Ivan was detained twice after the 2020 presidential elections. The first time was immediately after August 9. The second time, Lukashenko's security forces seized Kotov in mid-February 2021. Then, riot police detained 68 people in the village of Sokol in the Smolevichi district – participants and spectators of a concert by the band "Razbitae sertsa patsana."

He was released on February 17, 2026, having served his full sentence.

He was detained for administering the chat "Typical Silver", but the case was sent to court with charges only for protest actions.

He was released in September 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.

According to the indictment, Vadim Kalinin in February 2022, using his Xiaomi Redmi 6A mobile phone, left an offensive comment on his address on the Instagram under the publication of the minsk_news account with the image of Alexander Lukashenko.

At the hearing, the man admitted his guilt in full.

In addition to imprisonment, Vadim will be subjected to compulsory security measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism.

A resident of the capital , Zakhar Pavlovich Kostko, is a citizen of Russia. He, along with Stanislav Akalovich, was accused of desecration of state symbols ( Article 370 of the Criminal Code ). In addition, Akalovich was found guilty of malicious hooliganism under Part 1 of Article 339.

He was accused of making donations to an organization recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.