Pursuit is over

On June 30, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

The ONT TV channel showed a “repentance” video with Victoria. A criminal case was opened against her and she was placed in custody. In the story, she is accused of evading taxes, subscribing to “extremist” channels, leaking data from security forces, participating in the Peramoga plan, and financing extremist activities. The court found Victoria guilty of providing funds to knowingly support the activities of an extremist group, deliberately illegally collecting and providing information about the private life and personal data of another person without his consent.

Together with Victoria, her husband Dmitry was detained, who served 30 days of administrative arrest and was released.

Dmitry is the director of the Gomel Motor Repair Plant, the vocalist of the ethno-group “Ban-Graviyba”, and Victoria is an entrepreneur. They are also famous dancers.

Viktor Lameko, a businessman from Zelva, was brutally detained and beaten during his arrest. Initially, he was charged under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (dissemination of extremist materials). Without even allowing Lameko to leave the courthouse, security forces detained him again and again charged him under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus. While he was in pretrial detention, a third charge was filed against him.

As it became known , the businessman is in pretrial detention, he has already been charged under the criminal article for slander against Lukashenko A.G.

While the man was in pretrial detention, his mother died.

Viktor sued the tax authorities and defended entrepreneurs from the Grodno region in court.

The appeal was heard on October 24, 2023. The verdict entered into force.

According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of 2025.

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.

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

The appeal court hearing took place on June 16, 2023. The verdict entered into force.

Sergei is known to be free, but his politically motivated sentence, where he will be serving his sentence, and his release date remain unknown due to the closed judicial system in Belarus.

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.

On February 2, 2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict entered into force.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2026, having served his full sentence.

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.