Paul Ivanovich Kazakov

Convicted for comments on social networks.

It became known that on August 11, 2023, Maxim will be retried under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus

On October 27, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, he was released on November 2, 2023.

Previously, he was brought to administrative responsibility for participating in protests.

On June 29, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

In the summer of 2023 he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

It is known that Vladimir was charged with 8 episodes of insults - the man left abusive comments against government officials on Odnoklassniki, and also distributed their personal information.

Nothing is known about the details of the charges under other articles.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

He was detained by Russian border guards when he tried to leave Belarus. He was handed over to the Belarusian security forces and placed in a pre-trial detention center.

At the beginning of September 2022,it became known that a trial was held in Orsha to strengthen the political prisoner regime and Dmitry was transferred to prison regime.

Dmitry’s mother died on April 13, 2023.

It recently became known that in Orsha on September 1, 2023, a trial was held under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code (Malicious disobedience to the requirements of the prison administration). Dmitry was added to his prison term by another 1 year and 15 days . That is, the political prisoner’s term should have ended on August 18, and he should have been released, but this did not happen due to re-arrest and trial on a new criminal case.

Ilya was convicted for a personal message sent to Vladimir Kozlovsky, a senior police inspector at the Ministry of Internal Affairs department of the Leninsky District Administration of Grodno. According to the prosecution, in his message, he threatened to use violence against the police officer "with the aim of obstructing his lawful activities, forcing him to change the nature of these activities, and out of revenge for the performance of his official duties."

He was released in the winter of 2026, having served his sentence in full.

Ruslan was accused of “feeling hatred towards the current government” and writing numerous offensive messages to police officers and their relatives.

It is known that he has a 3rd group disability due to vision impairment.

Ruslan was released from prison early after being pardoned.

Nikita was found guilty of "desecration of state symbols." According to the prosecution, demonstrating an offensive and disdainful attitude toward the Belarusian national flag, he climbed onto the roof of a building and tore the flag from its pole, damaging the staff. He and Yaroslav Geben then took photographs with the flag and filmed a video of it being used. The prosecution claims the flag was repeatedly thrown to the ground and into the bushes.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.

Vadim was removed from the Moscow-Grodno train in Orsha on November 19, 2021, and detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."

In February 2022, he was convicted of participating in a protest that took place on September 6, 2020, in Grodno near the Brest supermarket and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.

He was released in December 2022, having fully served his sentence.

Yaroslav was found guilty of "desecration of state symbols." According to the prosecution, demonstrating an offensive and disdainful attitude toward the Belarusian national flag, he climbed onto the roof of a building and tore the flag from its pole, damaging the staff. He and Nikita Murin then took photographs with the flag and filmed a video of it being used. The prosecution claims the flag was repeatedly thrown to the ground and into the bushes.

He was released in December 2023, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.

Tikhon was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.

In December 2021, he was convicted of leaving seven comments in the "Grodno for Life" Telegram chat on September 6, 2020. He was also accused of participating in the "March of Unity," where, according to investigators, he and other participants formed a chain of ranks and blocked the entrance to the "Ranica" bookstore at 33 Mostovaya Street.

According to human rights activists, Tikhon was released in 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Evgeny, a Russian citizen, was arrested and convicted on charges of "desecration of state symbols" for removing the flag of the Republic of Belarus, along with its flagpole, from the wall of the Ostrovets District Executive Committee's Labor and Social Protection Department, and taking it home.

He was released in December 2021, 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.