Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka

On May 31, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

He was released in the spring of 2025.

Sergey is an entrepreneur. Since 2022, he has been repeatedly charged with "dissemination of extremist materials" for forwarding news from the NEXTA channel to Telegram and liking the "STOP LUKA" community on Odnoklassniki.

Following the August 2020 elections in Belarus, Sergei posted a call to stop trains in order to destabilize the country's economic situation on the Telegram channel "Railwaymen of Belarus" (later deemed extremist). He was arrested for this, and in April 2024, he was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.

In the fall of 2025, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Vitaly was detained at his workplace by GUBOPiK officers as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in such actions." During his detention and interrogation, physical force and psychological pressure were used against him.

In April 2024, Vitaly was convicted for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.

Released in November 2024 as part of a pardon.

Vladislav was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.

He was released in the fall of 2025, having fully served his sentence.

Artyom was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020. It is known that he was detained in August 2020, and at the time he was a minor.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2025, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Artyom was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.

In November 2024, Artem was pardoned.

She was detained on January 23, 2024, during a massive raid by security forces on the relatives of political prisoners and people who helped them.

On March 19, 2026, she was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).

According to the case file , on February 27, 2022, the man filmed military aircraft flights and sent the footage to a so-called "extremist group." The exact location of the video was not specified.

He is expected to be released at the end of 2025.

Seventeen people from Baranovichi were charged under the "people's" article. They were found guilty of participating in a march in Baranovichi on the night of August 10-11, 2020. They were allegedly on the roadway of the streets, shouting loudly, shouting "slogans" and "displaying" national flags.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2025, having served his full sentence.

Seventeen people from Baranovichi were charged under the "people's" article. They were found guilty of participating in a march in Baranovichi on the night of August 10-11, 2020. They allegedly stood on the streets, shouted loudly, chanted "slogans," and "displayed" national flags.

He was scheduled to be released on October 14, 2025.

Igor worked in Poland as an electrician. He was detained while crossing the Polish-Belarusian border.

In a pro-government video, Sorokin says that he went out onto the roadway and blocked traffic. The video is obviously from the protest action on August 10, 2020, which took place in Brest. Specifically, the moment of the skirmish at the intersection of the boulevards and Masherov Avenue.

According to human rights activists, he was released on May 9, 2025.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2025.

On September 15, 2023, 57-year-old Gennady Vasilyuk was fined for "distributing extremist materials." Subscriptions to "extremist" materials were found on Gennady's Odnoklassniki page. Furthermore, Vasilyuk was dismissed from the locomotive depot "by mutual agreement."

On December 7, 2023, Gennady was arrested in connection with a criminal case for "defamation of Lukashenko" (Part 1, Article 367 of the Criminal Code) and placed in pretrial detention. The case was heard on February 22 and 26, 2024.

The man was accused of posting "likes" on three videos featuring economist Yaroslav Romanchuk on the social media site Odnoklassniki on June 8, 9, and 17, 2022.

Gennady admitted his guilt and stated that on the specified dates in June, he traveled to a village in the Zhabinka district, as confirmed by a mobile phone statement. He uses a push-button phone, so he couldn't have accessed Odnoklassniki while in the village.

Prosecutor Yegor Kronda found Gennady's guilt fully proven and requested a sentence of one year and six months in prison for him.

Gennady was convicted a second time on September 16, 2024, for participating in protests. His wife and three others were also convicted along with him. According to the court, the charge against all three was that on August 10, 2020, in Brest, people "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped, displayed white-red-white banners, and stepped onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.

The court sentenced Gennady to one and a half years in prison, but taking into account the unserved previous (political) sentence, the final sentence was only two years in a general regime penal colony.

He was expected to be released in October 2025 .

Detained for participating in the protest on August 10, 2020. A pro-government channel showed a video filmed on September 10, 2020, where a young man simply stands on the roadway of Masherov Avenue among protesters, and then leaves the road. The same channel showed the arrest: special forces with shields and machine guns burst into the young man's apartment.

Andrey is a foreign language teacher who worked in an IT company before his arrest.