Former political prisoners

Alexander Nikolaevich Kulinich

Dissidentby since

09.04.2024 was in jail and awaiting trial, which was scheduled to take place on April 16, 2024. However, a week before, on April 9, the man died of coronary heart disease.

Alexander was a reserve lieutenant colonel, served in the 38th separate guards airborne assault Brest brigade of the Airborne Forces. Recently, he worked as an individual entrepreneur, engaged in food additives. As sources told the publication , Alexander Kulinich died on April 9, 2024, in the Brest pretrial detention center due to ischemic heart disease: this cause is indicated in the death certificate. In Brest pretrial detention center No. 7, journalists were told that they had a prisoner with that name, but they refused to confirm the fact of death.

It is known that Alexander was detained for comments he left in 2020. This happened on February 29, 2024, in the village of Dorogovo, Korelichi District, Grodno Region. On March 1, the "repentant" video appeared in one of the Telegram channels close to the security forces. But it contained footage of the detention from an apartment building. Relatives and friends of the deceased say that the video from the apartment is not Alexander. And later in the video, Alexander himself says that he was detained "for comments on the Internet." "In one of the accounts, I wrote "cattle" under the president's speech," the man explained.

Alexander Kulinich was buried on his birthday, April 11, 2024, in his native Molodechno.

The case was heard by Judge Marina Skalkovich from April 16 to May 31, 2024.

The appeal against the verdict will be heard on July 12, 2024. Chairman of the Judicial Collegium Dmitry Karasinsky.

Sentences

Trial outcome 31.05.2024
unknown.
Appeal 12.07.2024
unknown.

Involved in repression

Marina Alexandrovna Skalkovich
Marina Alexandrovna Skalkovich
Judges18 december 1984
Place:
Court of the Maskouski District of Brest
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
31.05.2024
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Dmitriy Iosifovich Karasinsky
Dmitriy Iosifovich Karasinsky
Judges13 april 1982
Place:
Brest Regional Court
Type:
Appeal
Date:
12.07.2024
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Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka
Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka
Overseers27 december 1979
Place:
SIZO-7
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Alexander Nikolaevich Kulinich
In custody:
Hometown:
Maladzyechna
Birthday:
11.04.1972
Was held in:
SIZO-7, Brest, Sovetskih Pogranichnikov 37, 224030
Health problems:
Heart
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Timeline

  1. 2024
  2. ~29.02.2024

    Transfer

    SIZO-7 — In custody

  3. ~09.04.2024

    Status change

    Death

  4. 09.04.2024

    Death

    was in jail and awaiting trial, which was scheduled to take place on April 16, 2024. However, a week before, on April 9, the man died of coronary heart disease

  5. 31.05.2024

    Trial outcome 31.05.2024

    unknown, Court of the Maskouski District of Brest

  6. 12.07.2024

    Appeal 12.07.2024

    unknown, Brest Regional Court