Sergey is an anarchist from Gomel. He was arrested on the night of 28-29 October 2020 close to Ukrainian border by Belarusian border guards along with Dmitry Dubovski, Dmitry Rezanovich and Igor Alinevich. He was charged with terrorism and illegal possession of firearms. According to prosecutor's office, he and his comrades organized several arson attacks in Soligorsk and Mozyr against state institutions.

Sergey previously spent 5 years in prison for carrying explosives, and after release, a case of violating the probation requirements.

Pablo was arrested on February 9, 2021 and convicted by the Spanish court for song lyrics and tweets in which he was supposedly supporting terrorism, along with insulting the Crown and state institutions. Many of the tweets were actually about police violence and a lack of accountability in that area. For example, he wrote that Joseba Arregi, a former commander of ETA, had been murdered by the police agents who tortured him. This is an historic fact, but him pointing it out was part of the evidence they used to claim he supported terrorism.

Sibel Balac is a former teacher who resigned from her job in protest of more than 100,000 arbitrary layoffs in the public sector in the wake of the state of emergency declared in 2016. She supported the sit-in on Yüksel Street in Ankara, which was started by dismissed academic Nuriye Gülmen and became internationally known.  

From MN Uprising Support:

On October 18, 2022, José was sentenced by Judge Doty to 6.5 years with 3 years of supervised release.Restitution was set at $39,028 to be split with co-defendant Mohamad Abdi.

"Greetings, my name is José Felan and I am currently incarcerated due to the George Floyd protests here in Minnesota.

Matthew Rupert grew up in Galesburg Illinois with his loving parents Linda and Michael, his oldest sister Kristy, Middle sister Kari, youngest sister Karen, and brother Christopher. His father became sick when Matthew was young. Michael had several medical conditions including bipolar disorder, manic depression, and had suffered several strokes. He passed away December 6, 2012 leaving Linda a widow.