Pursuit is over

Dmitry Bogush worked in the banking sector for 18 years, was Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of JSC «‎Technobank». Subsequently, he went into business — built wind farms at two sites in the Grodno region.

In December 2022, 50-year—old Bogush was detained for an article about inciting discord - he allegedly wrote comments on social networks threatening Lukashenko and law enforcement officers.

According to Bogush, he was prompted to speak publicly on social networks by photos of beaten young people detained at protests after the 2020 elections.

The businessman said that he subsequently deleted his posts, but refused to leave Belarus, although his friends told him about it.

Alexander was charged with writing two comments under publications on the Belarus of the Brain Telegram channel. One message was written on February 24, 2022, under the news that Russian troops were entering Ukraine from Belarus. The second message, with which (according to the prosecution) Alexander publicly insulted A. Lukashenko, was published on April 7, 2022 (when Ukraine and Russia were negotiating a ceasefire) under the news with a quote from Lukashenko that "there can be no negotiations without the participation of Belarus."

On June 16, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

On April 21, 2023, Vladimir was tried in the Central District Court of Minsk and sentenced to four years of restricted freedom in an open correctional facility (called a "chemistry" facility) and a fine of 200 basic units (7,400 rubles). Vladimir managed to partially serve his sentence.

Several months later, Vladimir was re-arrested at a "chemistry" facility to increase his sentence. He has been in custody since July 10, 2023.

Vladimir was accused of leaving an offensive comment on July 5, 2021, referring to a police major with the Ivanovo District Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate (IDD) as "scum" on the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel. In 2020, the police officer was tasked with "maintaining public order" and was involved in the administrative cases brought against Belarusians en masse for participating in protests.

Released in June 2025.

The meeting was an off-site event and took place in the premises of the Dobrush municipal unitary enterprise.

The man was accused of leaving messages in one of the Telegram chats calling for participation in protests, and also sending "various news and information of a destructive nature" to the chat. At the trial, he said that he himself had participated in protests twice. The man fully admitted his guilt and repented of what he had done.

Galymzhan Bakirov has a secondary education. He worked at the Dobrush paper mill.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

On 27.06.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

It is known that Alexey has a 5-year-old daughter.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in March 2025.

He was engaged in making wooden toys. He led a group on VKontakte, which included artisans.

In 2020, he began writing critical messages about the situation with the presidential elections in Belarus in a group with about 6 thousand participants. Renamed the group to “Belarus without rudeness.” After 2021, activity in the group decreased, but with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, Dmitry began to speak out against the war in it. The group was eventually recognized as an “extremist formation.”

On April 4, 2023, Dmitry was detained and sent to serve 15 days of arrest, which he had been sentenced to earlier. However, after his arrest he was not released.

On February 16, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

According to the case materials , on February 27, 2022, 36-year-old Dmitry, during the republican referendum, was at the polling station, allegedly in a state of intoxication, having received a ballot, he wrote an obscene inscription on it addressed to the head of state. Then, without putting the ballot in the ballot box, the accused presented it unfolded to members of the commission, thereby disrupting the work of the polling station.

An inscription was found on the ballot: “Lukashenko and Putin...”; “Lukashenko and Putin...” in a perverted form.

The prosecution representative requested two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, but taking into account the amnesty, this period should be reduced by one year.

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

The resident of Brest was accused of writing 2 comments under a video with Lukashenko on May 24, 2021, in the Facebook group “People’s Verdict”. One message said “sick person”, the second “schizophrenic”.

On May 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

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

Convicted for participating in protests.

On June 23, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force

Ilya was arrested and convicted in the spring of 2023 for "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open-type institution.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2025, having fully served his sentence.

41 year old Anastasia has worked a lot of places, but the last known place of work is the director of the printing house of LLC «‎Electronic Agent».

The film on the ONT TV channel showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 in the house of Nastya and her husband Oleg Sychev in the garden association «Berezovaya Roshcha»‎ in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).

Nastya and her husband were detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.

According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.

In April 2021, Tuchkov left an offensive comment under a photo of Alexander Lukashenko in one of the Telegram channels recognized as extremist.

In August 2021, he left an obscene comment under a joint photo of Tertel and Lukashenko.

On June 8, 2023, the appeal was reviewed and the verdict came into force.

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

A taxi driver who was harshly detained by riot police at the end of January 2023 while he was waiting for an order near the bus station. Friends had been waiting for Roman since “days”, as they knew that he was detained for old likes on the Odnoklassniki social network. But then it turned out that the man was detained under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On June 21, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

According to estimates, the human rights defender will be released at the end of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.

20 year old Vladislav was accused of taking photos and videos of military equipment, military personnel, as well as a military airfield in Bobruisk from February 24 to February 25, 2022.

Then Vladislav forwarded at least 9 video files and photos to a telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus.

According to the prosecution, Dzyuba left publications that humiliated the honor and dignity of Lukashenko and contained an obscene form of linguistic expression in relation to him.

He also posted publications with photos of policemen on social networks, accompanied them with a text with a negative assessment. Among them were images of employees of temporary detention facilities with a swastika, Lukashenko with an improvised gallows.

The man pleaded guilty in full. He said that he had reposted the information on Facebook.com.

All the victims stated that the publication caused them moral harm.

In the spring of 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.