Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka
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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.
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Detained for a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was a minor at the time of that protest.
Nikita and seven other people began their trial on May 10, 2024, in the Moscow District Court of Brest.
According to human rights activists , he was released on September 27, 2024.
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Artem is a Ukrainian citizen who has lived in Belarus since 2009 and in recent years worked as a DJ in Brest, Kobrin, and Minsk.
According to his mother, Artyom was summoned to the migration service in January 2023 and asked to undergo a polygraph test. Soon after, unknown individuals in civilian clothes came to his home, and on January 27, he stopped responding. His mother repeatedly contacted the KGB, but she was not informed of the reasons for his detention, only that Artyom "posed a threat to the Republic of Belarus."
In May 2024, he was convicted of “intelligence activity” and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
A pro-government channel shows the arrest of a man: three security officers run up to him from behind on the street and put him face down on the asphalt. In the video, Yakovenko says that on August 10, 2020, he was on Masherov Avenue in Brest. He was there with his friend Igor Sorokin (he was arrested in February after returning from Poland).
According to human rights activists, he was released at the end of May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
In a “repentance video” on a pro-government channel , a man says that he was previously arrested for 10 days under the article on distributing “extremist materials” (Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code). This time he was detained for standing on the roadway with his friends in 2020 and “launching fireworks at employees.”
Detained in a criminal case of mass riots 08/10/2020
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Pavel was arrested for comments he made on the Real Belarus channel in 2022 on Telegram and found guilty in January 2025 of several criminal charges, including "inciting hatred or discord."
He was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole.
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.
On May 31, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
He was released in the spring of 2025.
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Sergey is an entrepreneur. Since 2022, he has been repeatedly charged with "dissemination of extremist materials" for forwarding news from the NEXTA channel to Telegram and liking the "STOP LUKA" community on Odnoklassniki.
Following the August 2020 elections in Belarus, Sergei posted a call to stop trains in order to destabilize the country's economic situation on the Telegram channel "Railwaymen of Belarus" (later deemed extremist). He was arrested for this, and in April 2024, he was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
In the fall of 2025, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Vitaly was detained at his workplace by GUBOPiK officers as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in such actions." During his detention and interrogation, physical force and psychological pressure were used against him.
In April 2024, Vitaly was convicted for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.
Released in November 2024 as part of a pardon.
Vladislav was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.
He was released in the fall of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
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- Detained under 18 years
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- Detained under 18 years
Artyom was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020. It is known that he was detained in August 2020, and at the time he was a minor.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2025, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Artyom was convicted in April 2024 under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest from August 10 to 11, 2020.
In November 2024, Artem was pardoned.
Igor was arrested in March 2024 and found guilty in the fall of that year under the article “participation in mass riots.”
A pro-government channel showed his arrest: at least five armed security officers wearing body armor and helmets arrived at Igor's apartment. They threw the Brest resident, wearing only his underwear, to the floor. In the video, the detainee says he was in a "linkage" on Sovetskaya Street in Brest.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Alenais accused of financing extremist activity following widespread arrests during the government's persecution of her support for political prisoners and their families through the INeedHelpBy food aid project.
Mother of former political prisoner Marina Glazova.
On August 27, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
She was released in 2025.
She was detained on January 23, 2024, during a massive raid by security forces on the relatives of political prisoners and people who helped them.
On March 19, 2026, she was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).