The goalkeeping coach of the Lviv football club, Vasily, was arrested in Belarus for protesting against the Lukashenka regime in 2020. Vasily returned to his homeland for a knee operation. According to Lvov head coach Oleg Dulub, Khomutovsky did not allow the thought that he could be detained in Belarus, and planned to return to Ukraine soon.
Evgenia Sirbu told the court that she left a comment in one of the Facebook groups regarding these riot police officers. Bondarchuk and Mazurkevich did not learn about the comment themselves, but from a GUSB officer. It was he who noticed that an article was posted on the social network, in which, in turn, there was a photograph of two police officers in uniform. And in one of the comments under this article, a GUSB officer noticed an “insult”.
Evgenia is a mother of many children.
Trial outcome 03.10.2022:
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Milana was accused of taking part in the Sunday March. Also, the woman was charged with disobedience to government officials and obstruction of public transport.
Milana was identified from photographs from the March, which the security forces found on her phone.
On October 3, Milana was released in the courtroom.
Trial outcome 03.10.2022:
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Berezyuk, after viewing in one of the telegram channels the photo of the assistant head of the internal affairs department of the administration of the Leninsky district of the city of Grodno for control over registration and accounting work, as well as the photo of the inspector of the road patrol service of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Kobrin district executive committee, posted in an open access offensive comments.
Detained together with parents on 09/27/2022. Identified from a photo from the book I'm Coming Out. The trial took place on December 27, 2022. On the same day the verdict was passed.
Trial outcome 27.12.2022:
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Alexander Samal was detained at the end of March 2021, and after being charged, he was released on bail.
According to the materials of the accusation, Alexander Samal, in October 2020, “intentioning to publicly insult a representative of the authorities in connection with the performance of his official duties, being at the place of residence in Molodechno, in the social Satka “Odnoklassniki” after viewing a publication about the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized crime and corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Nikolai Karpenkov, deliberately posted an offensive comment that has a derogatory and indecent form of speech.
Trial outcome:
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Yury was found guilty of participating in one of the marches, during which he “acted jointly and in concert with a group of people”, “shouted slogans in public”, “moved along the roadway”. Yuri pleaded guilty. Before sentencing, the man was at large on bail in the amount of 9,600 rubles ($3,800). After the entry into force of the verdict, the money will be returned to the one who pledged it.
It is known that before the arrest, the man worked as a loader. He also has a higher education and is a labor veteran.
Trial outcome 27.09.2022:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
According to the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was detained for comments on the network and participation in protest actions 2020.
Trial outcome 14.02.2023:
2 years of freedom restriction without referral to a correctional facility.
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