Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus

Article 342 punishes organizing or preparing "group actions that grossly violate public order" and are combined with clear disobedience to the lawful demands of the authorities, or active participation in such actions, with up to three years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom, and a heavier range under Part 2 for training or financing participants. It was the standard charge for the 2020 post-election protests.

The documented cases are people who walked in a march, stood in a "chain of solidarity", blocked a road for minutes, or were identified on video from a rally in Minsk, Brest, Grodno or a smaller town in August to November 2020. Prosecutions ran for years afterwards as faces were matched against footage, and hundreds of people were tried in groups of ten or more in a single hearing. Since 2022 the article has largely been replaced by the extremism provisions for new cases, but it remains the reason many of the longest-held 2020 prisoners are in a colony.