Mikhail Lapenas was detained on May 12, 2021. They are accused of insulting Yuri Karayev and calling for riots.
A witness at the trial stated that Mikhail called for participation in the actions, even invited him personally, and that he proposed to create a strike committee.
Roman was found guilty in September 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a video featuring Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, in which he pinned a detainee to the ground with his knee.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 16.09.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1500 rubles of compensation.
A resident of Minsk. Father of 6 children: 4 boys and 2 girls, aged from 1 to 16 years.
Detained on December 7, 2021 for participating in protests on August 10, 2020 near a supermarket in «Riga», was identified on video. Convicted on June 16, 2022.
Trial outcome 16.06.2022
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki under a post about Andrei Komar, a senior police officer at the Bobruisk Main Directorate of Internal Affairs. He was taken into custody in the courtroom immediately after the verdict was announced.
According to human rights activists, he was released in March 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 07.12.2021
2 years 3 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 1000 rubles of compensation.
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.
Alexander was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "hooliganism" and remanded in custody pending trial.
In December 2021, he was convicted of writing red and white graffiti and declaring his love for presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open correctional facility.
In June 2022, the court ordered an increase in the sentence, replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment to be served in a penal colony until the end of the sentence.
Alexander was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
After his release, the persecution against Alexander did not stop; he was repeatedly subjected to searches and administrative arrests for “picketing.”
In the summer of 2023, he was placed in pretrial detention on a new criminal case, and in December of that year, he was found guilty of "rehabilitation of Nazism" and "hooliganism," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2026, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 06.12.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 78 rubles of compensation.
A resident of Vitebsk, he recently worked in the Russian Federation.
Convicted for a comment on the social network Odnoklassniki, which was left on July 2, 2020 under a post about witness testimony in court against the innocent addressed to a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He wrote under the photo: "It's written on his forehead: complete scum."
He was brought to justice in March 2021 for symbols in an administrative case.
Artem was convicted in a criminal case brought under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Valery was convicted in a criminal case brought under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Dmitry was arrested in the fall of 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."
In December 2021, he was convicted of participating in a protest that took place on August 10, 2020, in Grodno: his driving near the regional philharmonic and honking at protesters were considered a crime.
He was released in January 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Nikolai was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photo of Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer from the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Sergei was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the articles "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and "insulting a government official." The case stemmed from a comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki about a police officer.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Dmitry was found guilty on September 3, 2021, of "desecration of state symbols" for tearing down two state flags in June 2021: one from a Euroopt store building and one from a kindergarten in the Zavodskoy District of Minsk. He was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility, and he began serving his sentence in late September.
In January 2022, Dmitry was convicted again of "insulting a government official" for a comment left under a photograph of Interior Ministry spokesperson Olga Chemodanova. The final sentence was determined by combining the lesser sentence with the more severe one.
He was released in August 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 03.09.2021
1 year restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Ruslan 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 actively participating in them." In November of that year, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in Minsk in September 2020.
He was released in February 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 26.11.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Artem 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 November 2021, he was found guilty of standing in a group of vehicles on Lenin Street, stepping onto the roadway on Nezavisimosti Avenue, and several other streets during a protest in Minsk on September 6, 2020.
For some time, Artem was undergoing compulsory treatment due to his mental state.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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