Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka

Head of the department of the Brest Regional Narcological dispensary.

According to law enforcement officials, the man left offensive comments about Lukashenko and Chairman of the Brest City Executive Committee Alexander Rogachuk.

That day, Alexander and a friend went to visit and got tipsy. We went out into the street and talked about political topics. Then a woman approached, made a remark and sharply demanded to shut up.

As it turned out later, this second woman called the police with a message that “there is a company of 8 people in the yard, they are scolding the authorities, calling Lukashenko a traitor and a fascist.” After 23 minutes, police appeared in the yard and took Trush and his friend to the police station.

On January 13, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Alice is accused of one telegram message written on the evening of February 28, 2022 (on the 4th day of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine).

The comment was written in the telegram chat «Belaruski Gayun Chat» (a chat associated with the channel Belaruski Gayun», which tracked the movement of Russian troops on the territory of Belarus). The text contains the word «rats», and the state prosecution interprets this as referring to Lukashenko. In addition, at the trial, the prosecutor pointed out that this word is profanity.

According to human rights activists, she was released on August 18, 2023 after the expiration of her sentence.

According to the materials of the criminal case, Alexei Mikhnyuk from an unidentified device in extremist chats on Telegram repeatedly posted messages that contradicted universal morality, and at the same time containing statements expressed in an indecent form, humiliating the honor and dignity of Alexander Lukashenko. The accused also posted insults against the press secretary of the head of the presidential administration, Natalya Eismont.

During the trial, Mikhnyuk admitted his guilt in his crime and repented.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

At the beginning of the trial, Sergei Matyukhevich was charged under two articles of the Criminal Code for messages on the Internet. However, under Article 369 of the Criminal Code, the judge released the man from punishment: the statute of limitations had expired. But under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code, Sergei was found guilty.

As the prosecutor reported in a video broadcast by state media, Matyukhevich was accused of using his phone and the Internet to incite citizens to use violence against security forces on July 15, 2020.

On 13.01.2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

Sergei has two young sons. The youngest was born while Sergei was in prison awaiting trial.

It is known about Anton that he is 29 years old, enjoys football and, judging by his social networks, supports the English club «Liverpool». And the man is not just a football fan — on his vk.com page you can find a photo where Anton himself plays on the field. And in the archived match data, it can be found that from at least 2015 to 2019, he played for the Brest amateur club «Smena».

At the trial, it was about Anton's Internet activity. According to the accusation, the man posted a video with Alexander Lukashenko on Storis and accompanied it with an insulting one-word inscription.

In September he was released upon expiration of his sentence.

According to the indictment, Alexei posted a comment in a telegram chat on the NEXTA Live channel regarding the shootout between Zeltser and the KGB officers: “That’s what these regime creatures need. I feel sorry for the guy."

On February 23, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

The wife of the convicted blogger Igor Losik.

Cjnhelybrb law enforcement agencies came home to the Losik's at 8 a.m. Daria herself and her two year old daughter Polina were sleeping.

According to the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Daria is accused of facilitating extremist activities in the form of a conversation with the Belsat TV channel in the spring of 2022, despite the fact that the TV channel was recognized as an extremist formation in November 2021. Such an interview, according to the authors of the post, may entail criminal liability under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code on facilitating extremist activity.

Edgar was detained in a criminal case opened for comments on the social network VKontakte after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser.

Edgar Shirko previously worked as a librarian, a journalist for the Intex-Press publication, and taught history and social studies at school.

On 13.01.2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists , he will be released in February 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

According to the prosecution version, Mikhail from October 2021 to January 8, 2022 in vk.com He left comments with a negative assessment and a call for violent actions against A.G. Lukashenko. Before the trial, as well as during the trial itself, Mikhail completely refused to testify. But at the same time, at the court hearing, he stated that he fully admits guilt. Before the trial, Mikhail was in custody.

According to the materials of the prosecution, at the end of September 2021, Oleg Dutchik posted in vk.com a comment in which he spoke negatively about the death of an employee of the State Security Committee Dmitry Fedosyuk in Minsk.

In addition, over the past year, the man has repeatedly posted negative statements in various communities with insults to the president, humiliated his honor and dignity.

The last post in his account in vk.ru it was made on March 27 and was as follows: «Arrest is a restriction of freedom».

During the trial, the man pleaded not guilty.

In August 2022, Sergei was sentenced to 15 days of arrest for a repost from a telegram channel recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.

But after the administrative arrest, Sergei did not leave the IVS: he was charged with criminal article 130. As it became known, the case was already going to court, forensic examinations were carried out — but suddenly the man was charged with another criminal article. This time according to Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

The first sentence was pronounced on 11/28/2022 , Sergei is waiting for a second trial.

Dmitry lived in Ukraine for a long time, and in 2019 he married a Ukrainian woman there. He did not serve in the Belarusian army, but in Ukraine he joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a supply officer. From March to October 2021, he worked as a guard at a military warehouse in the demarcation zone between the DPR/LPR and the territory controlled by Ukraine.

In the fall of 2021, having lost his Belarusian passport, Dmitry went to the embassy in Kyiv, where he was issued a temporary document and advised to go to Belarus for a new passport. However, immediately after crossing the border, he was detained. For two days in a row, the KGB interrogated him on suspicion of "terrorism" and "weapons transportation."

No facts were found, but Dmitry was transferred from the temporary detention facility to a pretrial detention center and a case of "mercenarism" was opened (Article 133 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). Later, the article was reclassified, and in March 2022, he was convicted of "participation in military actions on the territory of a foreign state without the authorization of Belarus." During his stay in the pretrial detention center, Dmitry's daughter was born.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence.

According to the prosecution, in September 2020, Kolpak publicly posted "negative comments addressed to police officers, civil servants, and government officials in a Telegram chat, inciting and calling for violence against members of the aforementioned social groups." He was also accused of repeatedly posting text articles in a Telegram chat in Minsk from August 8 to September 28, 2020, in which he called on drivers to create traffic jams, sabotage work, and protest, including by blocking traffic.

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