Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka
Head of the Pre-trial Detention Center No. 7 of the UDIN of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Brest Region, Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service.
Involved in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus.
Head of the Pre-trial Detention Center No. 7 of the UDIN of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Brest Region, Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service.
Involved in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus.
List of repressed
It follows from the verdict that in 2021, on September 18 at 15:07, the man wrote a comment in the telegram chat "Chat Elekhtarata". There he "negatively assessed" A. Lukashenko. There was also an investigation against Kronda under another popular political article - Article 370 of the Criminal Code (Desecration of state symbols) - but that case was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024.
Stanislav was detained upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had moved more than a year earlier. He came home in late 2023 to spend the holidays with his family, but was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened after protests on August 10, 2020, in Brest against the falsification of the presidential election. Stanislav was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”
In a pro-government confessional video published, he says that he "participated in protests and went out onto the roadway." The recording shows that Stanislav's face is scratched, although no such damage was visible when he was detained.
The essence of the case and the verdict were commented on by the assistant prosecutor of Brest on state television. From the video and the prosecutor’s commentary, it follows that Sankovskaya was charged with the following: in 2020 and 2021, in one telegram chat she published an image of the state flag of Belarus, and in the background there was a Nazi swastika (this was a “desecration of state symbols”), and also again in Telegram messenger published an “insulting” message about Yuri Karaev (remember that from June 2019 to the end of October 2020 Karaev was the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after which he took the post of Assistant to the President for the Grodno region), and also in the Telegram messenger published several messages about A. Lukashenko, which were also considered “offensive.”
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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Konstantin was detained in October 2023 upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had most recently lived. He was accused of posting “numerous offensive comments” and later convicted of several online statements that, according to the prosecution, contained negative assessments of Lukashenko. Konstantin was also charged with insulting government officials, but this was dropped due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
In September 2024, he was released under a pardon.
On January 23, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
He was released in early summer 2024, having served his full sentence.
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In a confessional video on a pro-government channel, Alexander says that he was detained for sending a video of military equipment to a chat. At that time, he was allegedly scared, so he posted the video out of emotion. “In this chat there was a narrative that hostilities were about to begin between Belarus and Ukraine,” says the engineer.
The video shows screenshots from the chat. The explanation for the video with military equipment says that it is moving along the M1 highway towards Brest. It is unknown when this was filmed.
Alexander works as an energy engineer.
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In the video , Alexander says that he works as a karate trainer and was charged with making a video of military equipment and posting it on an “extremist” telegram channel. The detainee also said that in 2020 he hung ribbons on poles and signs and posted leaflets along the road.
On April 19, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
According to the prosecution, on July 18, 2021, Pavel Korolevich posted a message in a group called "Online Brest" on the social network "Vkontakte" that humiliated the honor and dignity of Alexander Lukashenko and was offensive to him. Also on August 11, 2021, he posted another offensive message in the same community.
In court, Korolevich partially admitted his guilt, since the offensive comments were made specifically in relation to Lukashenko, and not in relation to the President of the Republic of Belarus in connection with the performance of his official duties.
According to human rights activists , he was released on December 25, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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The girl is a citizen of Ukraine, originally from the city of Kherson. She studied in China, graduated from the university there in 2015, and in 2016 moved to Belarus. In Belarus she worked as a translator from Chinese.
Ekaterina was detained while crossing the Belarusian border. They demanded that she give her phone for verification; she provided it to the employees along with the passwords. Belarusian security forces found that on March 30, 2022, she sent 2 videos to the chatbot of the Zerkalo editorial office. The video showed the movement of Russian military equipment near Minsk, which she herself captured.
On December 12, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
On the evening of June 28, 2024, sudden information appeared about the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian colonies. The Ukrainian authorities achieved the release of their exchange citizens as prisoners. This is how Natalya Zakharenko, Pavel Kuprienko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Ekaterina Bryukhanova, as well as Nikolai Shvets, a defendant in the “Machulishchi case,” were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. It is noted that the Vatican took part in the liberation. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28 - their photo from the Zhulyany airport appeared in the media.
Elena was detained in connection with the “round dance” case. She was returning from Poland to Brest. At passport control, the border guards became interested in the fact that the woman was born in Ukraine. She was handed over to unknown people in civilian clothes who demanded a phone number.
As a result, the woman was detained. After that there was an administrative court (15 days of arrest under Part 2 of Article 19. 11 of the Administrative Code) through two reposts in Telegram. And then the woman was placed in a pre-trial detention center until trial.
It is known that Elena lived in Brest and went to Poland for shopping.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction
As it became known , according to the prosecution, on August 23, 2021, Alexander wrote a comment about Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko. The comment was under the news of the Belarus of the Brain channel. The comment said that Golovchenko and Russian official Mishustin "discussed integration documents."
The message was assessed under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). The prosecution requested one year in prison and a fine of 50 b.a. for this episode.
Another message was written in October 2021 in the LukhtaVikings Telegram chat. There, the prosecution saw an insult to Lukashenko, and the prosecutor requested another year in prison under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code.
On 08.12.2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released on December 8, 2024.
The man was accused of writing a message about A. Lukashenko “in one of the telegram chats” on October 21, 2021. This comment was considered offensive.
20/05/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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crisis psychologist, consulting psychologist and therapist on problems of relationships and personal development, psychology teacher. She was detained for comments on the Internet and donation.
At the trial , Alesya Lyantsevich agreed that it was she who made the donations, but rejected the “extremist” motives and insults attributed to her by the prosecution. At the same time, the statute of limitations on this article has long expired.
At the court hearing on September 21, the state prosecution requested that Lentsevich be imprisoned for a term of four years.
The man was accused of writing a telegram comment about a certain Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus on June 23, 2022. In the commentary, the examination found a “negative assessment” of the minister, expressed “in a non-standard form.”
10/06/2023 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 months of arrest
