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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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Alexander was detained in January 2022 by GUBOPiK and OMON officers, who attacked him, pushing him face-first into the snow, and then dragged him into a police car. He was recorded on video, claiming he didn't know why he was detained. According to police testimony, in the summer of 2020, Alexander left messages in a local chat room advising people to "gather in small groups in each district and then head downtown" and to "abandon their cars on the road" on central streets.
In April 2022, Alexander was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in May 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Sergei was arrested in September 2021 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 January 2022, he was convicted of participating in a gang fight during a post-election protest that took place in Minsk from August 9 to 10, 2020, and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Convicted under Article 364, Article 369, Article 368, Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. It is known that the man worked in a taxi, and was also a driver at various enterprises.
He was previously convicted of participating in protest actions under an administrative article.
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.
Vitaly was found guilty of insulting the chief and deputy chief of the Khotsimsk traffic police.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Denis was found guilty in August 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left in the "Baranovichi Free" Telegram chat under a video featuring former Interior Minister Yuri Karaev.
He was released in October 2023, having fully served his sentence.