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Dmitry was arrested and convicted for, according to investigators, taking part in the production and burning of dolls near Mogilev that referenced officials, including Lukashenko.
He was released in November 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Artem, a student, was first detained and severely beaten after a protest, the Pensioners' March, in November 2020. He was then sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article.
However, on March 24, 2021, during the days of mass preventive detentions before Freedom Day, he was arrested again early in the morning in a dormitory, allegedly because of a flag he had spotted, and sentenced to 25 days of administrative arrest. But the very next day, a video appeared on the Telegram channel of the propagandist Azarenka, in which Artem confessed to administering the public page. It later became known that he was beaten with truncheons to force him to record this confession.
He was never released, as a criminal case was opened against him. Artem was subsequently convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and "creation of an extremist group."
Released in January 2025 as part of a pardon.
Alexander was convicted for a comment left under one of the posts on Odnoklassniki, addressed to the head of the Dzerzhinsky District Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk Region, Yevgeny Zhilinsky.
He was released in January 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Sergei was arrested and convicted for, according to investigators, “deliberately attaching a metal wire between two railroad rails by wrapping it around the rails.”
He was released in August 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Viktor was arrested and convicted for attempting to block rail traffic. In two cases, the blockade worked, disrupting train traffic.
He was released in August 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Vladimir was arrested and convicted for attempting to block rail traffic. In two cases, the blockade worked, disrupting train traffic.
He was released in August 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Sergei was arrested and convicted for attempting to block rail traffic. In two cases, the blockade worked, disrupting train traffic.
According to human rights activists, he was released in August 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Viktor was arrested in August 2020 as part of a criminal case opened after a protest held on August 10, 2020 in Novopolotsk against the falsification of the presidential elections. He was later released on bail.
In January 2021, Viktor was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restriction of freedom. However, in June, he was released from the correctional facility pending appeal, as the prosecutor filed a protest. At the end of June, his sentence was changed to imprisonment.
In December 2022, Viktor's sentence was changed to prison.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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Artem was detained in connection with a criminal case brought for damaging three Tabakeroks. He was convicted of writing the words “Long Live Belarus” on one of them and “actively resisting detention.”
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Irina was convicted for a comment on a social network left in December 2020 under a photograph of the head of the Postavy District Department of Internal Affairs, Alexander Rybakov, in connection with the performance of his official duties, as well as for cartridges from a small-caliber rifle found during a search.
She was released in November 2022, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
In November 2023, it became known that the former political prisoner's preventive supervision was extended for two years. In addition, Irina was tried for reposting materials from sources deemed "extremist."
Anatoly was convicted of painting the Tabakerka kiosks, the arch and the fountain in the area of the former Volgograd supermarket.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Artem was convicted in a criminal case brought for a comment left in a closed Telegram chat addressed to a police officer.
He was released in November 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Maxim was convicted in a criminal case brought for a comment left in a closed Telegram chat addressed to a police officer.
He was released in September 2021 as part of a pardon.
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Youras, a politician and lawyer, was arrested on April 12, 2021, in a criminal case opened under the article "conspiracy or other actions committed with the aim of seizing state power." In September 2022, he was sentenced to a long prison term on several criminal charges, despite the fact that he fully admitted his guilt and entered into an agreement with the investigation.
In December 2022, he was convicted again for “insulting a government official.” According to the state-run newspaper Minska Pravda, in 2020–2021, he allegedly repeatedly left offensive comments on a Telegram channel recognized as extremist.
In June 2023, Yourasya's sentence was increased, and he was transferred to prison regime. In August 2024, he was convicted of "malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration" - an article under which prisoners are tried for refusing to cooperate or for fictitious violations. As a result, taking into account all the court's decisions, his total term of imprisonment was 13 years and 3 months.
Youras was under constant pressure: he was repeatedly sent to solitary confinement, deprived of parcels and the opportunity to shop. In protest, he went on hunger strike several times. It is also known that he has serious health problems.
He was released in April 2025.
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Vadim, a youth coach for Dynamo Brest, was arrested in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against the falsification of the presidential elections that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
He was released in October 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.