The man was detained from November 21 to November 24, 2023, after which he was placed under house arrest.
He was accused of leaving a comment on the telegram channel “Belarus of the Brain” on August 13, 2021, under the publication “Good news on Friday evening from cyber-partisans: the wiretapping of the internal communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was hacked.” On the cover of the publication there were photographs of the head of the Soligorsk police department, police colonel Alexander Aleksandrovich Sharovar, and the deputy head of the police department of the Minsk regional executive committee, colonel Maksimovich Nikolai Vasilyevich. It was in the direction of the two named police officers that Victor left a comment that the court considered offensive. The man fully admitted his guilt.
Victor Ostapuk has a higher education and works as a director in a limited liability company.
Trial outcome 25.01.2024:
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
According to the prosecution , Anna and Alexandra “publicly shouted slogans, made loud handclaps, blocked traffic, thereby causing damage to Minsktrans in the amount of 5839 rubles 65 kopecks.”
The court featured photographs that confirmed their participation in the protest.
Trial outcome 25.01.2024:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
Igor Zhivolun, a Ukrainian citizen, hails from the Sumy region of Ukraine. After the full-scale Russian invasion of his homeland and the occupation of his hometown of Nedryhayliv, he actively began spreading information on his Facebook page, helping to locate Ukrainian civilians and soldiers missing in the war, as well as various anti-war information and information about the participation of Belarusians in defending Ukraine from Russian aggressors.
He was released in early September 2025, after which he was deported to Ukraine.
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