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36-year-old Oleg Shvaiko worked with the women's team at the Minsk football club. It is known that he expressed an active position regarding the events in Belarus in 2020. At the end of 2021, the coach left the Minsk structure. He was detained on November 4, 2022. After his arrest, he was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest. Oleg was then transferred to a pre-trial detention center as part of a criminal case for participating in the 2020 protests.
According to human rights activists, he was released in July 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Author of the Spadchyna telegram channel, Wikipedia editor and Twitter blogger.
In the pro-government video, Chekhovich says that he is “against the current government and supports Ukraine.”
Released after administrative arrest (13 days).
Dmitry Solovyanchik worked as a courier for Kuprienko's company. A story on a pro-government channel claims that he also filmed a video of the movement of military equipment and passed it on to Kupriyenko, "not knowing what they were for him."
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At the end of July 2024, he was released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years in prison
The case was dismissed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. However, the policeman, who is considered the victim in this case, said that he would still file for compensation for moral damage to him (by filing a civil lawsuit).
CASE IS CLOSED
Before the trial, Vyacheslav was at large, he was detained for three days from September 9 to 12, 2022. He was found guilty of leaving a comment about Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte under his photo on March 1, 2021, the comment consisted of one word: "idiot".
Vyacheslav Ovchuk admitted his guilt. He said that he was outraged by Lukashenko's statement that people who receive salaries in envelopes should be punished. According to the accused, those who issue them should be punished.
According to human rights activists, he was released in mid-January 2025.
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He worked as an international transportation manager for the Minsk company Transglobal.
Sergey was very active in commenting on various messages in more than 30 groups. The Telegram account was more or less decently protected, but he had not changed it since 2018.
The security forces accuse him of "threatening government officials on the Internet" (he left 43 thousand comments). And also of transferring some information about his former classmate, a security officer, to the "Black Book of Belarus". 58 criminal cases have been opened against him.
On September 29, 2023, he was sent to pretrial detention center No. 4 (Mogilev). On October 27, Sergei's appeal was considered in the Minsk City Court. In late autumn 2023, it became known that Sergei had been transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1 as part of a new criminal case. The trial under Article 369 (insulting a government official) was scheduled for December 7, 2023, in the Minsk Moskovsky District Court, Judge Tatyana Pirozhnikova.
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Former employee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Department of Internal Affairs.
The man was accused of collecting information about the private lives and personal data of citizens from the Ministry of Internal Affairs databases from December 2021 to May 2022, which he then "distributed in the Telegram messenger."
In addition to imprisonment, Vladislav was sentenced to a fine of 300 basic units.
08/20/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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Alexandra works as a manager at the logistics company Trans Solutions. The reason for the arrest was her photographs on Tinder, where she stands on the road with a white-red-white flag during one of the protest marches in 2020. The publication about the arrest appeared in one of the unofficial telegram channels of security forces. A “repentance” video was shot with the girl, where she confirms her participation in the protests. At first she was placed in a temporary detention facility, then a criminal case was opened against her.
On April 21, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Grigory returned to Belarus in March 2022, where he was detained. The reason for the return was the mother's illness (cancer was found), and then the cancer was found in the father.
Grigory has not been in Belarus for a year and a half: since the end of November 2020. As he told the court, the reason for his departure was the inability to find a job in his specialty, as well as the need to deal with the documents of his grandmother (a citizen of Ukraine, but there is a Belarusian residence permit).
The man was convicted for participating in protest actions in Brest in 2020 (in the case of round dances).
Anatoly was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. In January 2023, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in January 2025, having fully served his sentence.
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.
Alexey was convicted for insulting comments in the telegram channel towards two representatives of the authorities. As follows from the text of the resolution, one of the tokens in Alexey's comments was: «erysipelas». The man fully admitted his guilt and repented. However, after the verdict was announced, the prosecutor of the Glubokoe district filed an appeal.
The Vitebsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Glubokoe district court and replaced Alexey with two years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility for two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony and a penalty of 1920 BYN.
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Employee of "Brestgazoapparat". He was detained right at the factory, from where he was taken out in handcuffs. Presumably for comments on social networks.
The appeal trial was held on March 3, 2023.
Released in the fall of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
unknown years of imprisonment in the colony