Mikhail was convicted in the spring of 2024 under the article "Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type institution.
In the winter of 2025, it became known that Mikhail had been tried in absentia as part of a special proceeding to have his sentence replaced by a prison term in a penal colony.
Trial outcome 02.05.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 25.07.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Regime change trial 12.02.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).
Pro-government Telegram channels published a "repentant" video with Vladimir Nikonov in March 2024. On camera, the man says that he left "unflattering comments" about Lukashenko, ministers, security officials, and their children.
Nikita was convicted in December 2023 of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open facility. He pleaded not guilty at trial, explaining that he came to Sovetskaya Square on his way to the store, saw a crowd with white-red-white and red-green symbols, and assumed it was a rally in support of Lukashenko, so he joined. According to the case file, a photograph of him with the national flag was found on a Telegram channel, and a video recording of the march with white-red-white symbols was also presented, which the prosecution considers evidence of his participation.
Before his arrest, Denis worked as a driver for a Lithuanian transport company. According to the prosecution, in August 2020, he participated in a march in Grodno, standing on the roadway, forming "couples," and blocking traffic on Yanka Kupala Avenue, disobeying police orders. At the trial, Denis partially admitted to participating in the march, denying that he interfered with public transportation.
Trial outcome 05.10.2023
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, unknown rubles of compensation.
Alexey was detained allegedly for comments on telegrams and for participating in protests in 2020. Previously, his data and a screenshot with his comments were published in one telegram channel, but he did not attach much importance to them.
According to human rights activists, he should have been released after serving the entire sentence.
Head of the «School of Practical Mediation». Mediator from Grodno. He was twice recognized as the «Best Mediator of the Year» (2016-2017) by the Center for Mediation and Negotiations (Minsk).
Khotyanovich specializes in disputes in the field of construction, real estate, consumer, commercial and corporate disputes, as well as in family mediation.
In a video posted on the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a man was forced to admit that in 2020 he participated in rallies in Minsk, spoke negatively to police officers and their families, had a subscription to telegram channels recognized in the Republic of Belarus as extremist.
Based on the information, she was followed and detained near the store. Her house was searched. It is known that she was detained as part of a criminal case. He is accused of participating in protests in September 2020.
He lived in Minsk and worked at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Cardiology. In October 2022, armed law enforcement officers broke into the apartment, laid Anton on the floor, then took him to the District Department of Internal Affairs. He was detained for participating in protest actions in September 2020 in Grodno. Then the guy studied at the Grodno Medical University.
Trial outcome 05.01.2023:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
She was detained for participating in the 2020 protests in Grodno together with Lyudmila Mazurkevich. As a result, Natalia was sentenced to probation. In January 2024, Natalia was detained during a raid by security forces on relatives of political prisoners and people of solidarity. Natalia was not released.
Trial outcome 17.03.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 04.10.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 03.01.2025
unknown.
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