Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka

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.

He is a musician.

Telegram channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that a 32 year old man allegedly insulted Lukashenko in the comments (the comment consists of only one word «trash», written under the news with a quote from Lukashenko that special services with vast experience are working against us today) .

The second charge also concerns Sergey's Internet activity. According to the prosecution, no later than 14:39 on February 27, 2022, the man sent a photo of the bulletin with two checkmarks to the NEXTA telegram bot. Thus, according to the prosecution, Sergey committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Promotion of extremist activity).

A defendant in a criminal case initiated after the murder of KGB officer Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser. Before her arrest, she worked at BelTA in a management position.

She was released in the second half of April 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

He was detained for driving a car near Pinsk and looking at the location of military units. According to the investigation, Anton sent this data to a Belarusian Telegram channel and to someone in Ukraine.

Anton was tried for leaking state secrets. The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of how the hearing went are unknown.

In November 2024, he was released after serving his sentence.

The young man was a first-year student, but after February 24 of this year, according to his testimony in court, he became less interested in his studies. He began looking for ways to help the Ukrainian side win.

During the court hearing, the young man explained his version of events: he decided to go to Ukraine to provide any assistance that might be needed. But the priority of assistance would be medical first, then logistical and technical.

On June 6, 2023, a young man was tried in Bobruisk under Part 1 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code for "malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional facility."

He was released at the end of May 2025, having served his full sentence.

Vasily is known to be 30 years old. He  was charged with the fact that on March 16, 2022, in one of the public Viber chats uniting the workers of the Brest carriage depot, he posted a video with deliberately unreliable information about the economic and social situation of the Republic of Belarus.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.

Yuri is accused of the fact that on January 25, 2022, from his mobile phone “in order to humiliate the honor and dignity of the head of state, guided by base motives” in one of the online communities, he wrote a comment about Lukashenko: “He organized terrorism and genocide in the country, and also "were engaged in occupation."

According to linguistic expertise, this comment “has a negative assessment of the activities of the head of state, which is not true.”

It is known that the man is 39 years old, he is from Ivanovo, a builder by training. Before his arrest, Yuri lived and worked in Russia for several years and visited Belarus on vacation.

According to human rights activists, he was released in early spring 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Dmitry was accused of sending photos and videos of military equipment with comments to the «Nexta» chat-bot in a telegram.

On February 12, 2022, he sent a video showing an unmarked plane flying at night, and he made a similar video on February 27. On March 3, Dmitry took off a tanker truck with the identification mark «V». On March 17, he sent a photo and video where something was allegedly launched from Baranovichi towards Ukraine.

None of these materials, as well as textual information, have been published in the «Nexta» channels.

Detained for a comment in a telegram chat after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment. Victor suffers from diabetes, an insulin-dependent form, and has a disability.

On May 17, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

As Sergei himself explained in court, he took the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine to heart and followed the news.

At the same time, from the beginning of April 2022, discord began in his family. Trying to cope with his experiences, he turned to alcohol.

On April 14, amid yet more family problems, Sergei Voytyuk left home for the border with Ukraine. Witnesses in the case (border guards, a taxi driver, etc.) testified that in their presence Sergei said that he was going to join Kalinovsky's battalion.

He was released in the summer of 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.

Convicted of placing portraits of the president in public places, having previously committed offensive actions with them.

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

The young man was charged with the fact that on February 27, 2022, he sent a video of a military aircraft to the telegram bot. Since this video was posted on the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, these actions were qualified under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Support of extremist activity).

Konstantin was taken into custody in the courtroom.

Released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

A worker of the local JSC of the Ivatsevichi district.

On November 9, 2020, Yuri wrote a comment with the word: «creature», in one of the telegram chats under a post with a photo of one of the special purpose police officers.

A year and a half later, they came to him with a search. During the search, in addition to protest symbols, a jar of cannabis was found, which Yuri personally collected six months ago in a field (for this Yuri was convicted under Article 328).

On September 22, 2022, another sentence was passed under Article 369.