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
- Associations
- Retirees
He was convicted for a comment containing the word: crap and reposting a video from the Dozhd TV channel, where Dmitry Shchigelsky and the channel’s presenter discussed the diagnosis of “mosaic psychopathy” in A.G. Lukashenko.
On September 26, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
35-year-old Mikhail was accused of writing a public insult about Valentin Pashkevich on August 9, 2021 at 23:19 in the telegram chat “Real Belarus Chat”, namely using the word “moron.”
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year in prison
Evgeniy’s “crime,” according to the prosecution, is that in April 2022, on the Odnoklassniki social network, a man gave a “class” reaction to the publication of the group “STOP LUKA.” After the “class” reaction, this post appeared on Bilobrovko’s page. With this, according to the prosecution, the man publicly insulted A. Lukashenko.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year in prison
The man worked as an ambulance doctor in Baranovichi and was remanded in custody pending trial. He was initially accused of "rehabilitating Nazism" for a repost that compared leaflets from Nazi Germany and leaflets from modern Russia. But in the middle of the trial, the charge was changed to "inciting hatred" towards Russians and Russians.
On September 22, 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
He was scheduled to be released on July 11, 2025.
At first, Oleg was convicted under an administrative article, part 2 of article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of extremist materials) for sending a telegram post from the Mustache Lukashenko channel in private messages to a friend. For this, the man was sentenced to 10 days of arrest. And already on March 22, 2023, the man was placed in a pre-trial detention center on criminal charges for comments about Lukashenka and the Belarusian military. According to human rights activists , there was such a comment about the military: "pi * duki" (it was with the asterisk sign that the comment imputed to Oleg was).
During Prokopchuk's stay in a pre-trial detention center, he had a third child, but this did not affect the court's decision.
On August 1, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was convicted of tearing down three Belarusian state flags from an educational institution, a retail facility and a post office.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Pavel Yanchuk is from the Kamenets region, but lived in Brest. Before the trial, Pavel was placed in custody.
According to the prosecution , on April 17, 2022, Pavel Yanchuk wrote an offensive comment about A.L. Lukashenko under a publication in the telegram channel “Real Belarus”.
On July 18, the appeal was considered, the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
- Associations
- Workers
The man was accused of leaving an offensive comment about Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte, in which he accused the politician of committing a crime against humanity and an act of terrorism. Vadim was held in custody until the trial. He fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.
Vadim has a secondary specialized education and worked as a welder.
According to human rights activists, he was released in September 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Inhabitant of Baranovichi. He was arrested in mid-February 2023. The man was charged with the fact that on March 8, 2021 on Instagram he posted a story “with the face of Lukashenka in a female guise” and the text: “Since March 8, daragia of a woman. The cruelest health and only pleasant ashchushcheny. For this, they were accused of publicly insulting Lukashenka.
Vladislav was also accused of sending videos and texts to the Nexta editorial chatbot several times (for example, videos of Russian military aircraft and trains with Russian military). This was qualified as "other assistance to extremist activity" under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code.
On September 05, 2023, the appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
- Associations
- Athletes
Dmitry was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code for Telegram comments about Alexander Lukashenko, Natalia Kachanova, and Russians. State television aired a video about the verdict. In it, the prosecutor explains the essence of the charge: that the comment about Russians constituted an "ethnic insult."
He was scheduled to be released on November 23 , 2025 .
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
Dmitry, a Ukrainian citizen, was arrested and convicted of "undercover activity." His uncle, Mikhail Stolyarchuk, was also charged in the same criminal case. According to the prosecution, they had been collecting data on military equipment and facilities in Belarus since 2018 on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine.
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.
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
Mikhail Stolyarchuk was convicted under Article 358-1 of the Criminal Code (intelligence activities). He is a Ukrainian citizen. His nephew, Dmitry Gudik, was also charged in the case. According to the prosecution, they had been collecting data on military equipment and facilities in Belarus on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine since 2018. Igor Dirko was also detained with them, but instead of being prosecuted, he was deported from Belarus.
Worked as a bus driver on Belarus-Ukraine routes.
He was pardoned on November 22, 2025, along with 31 other Ukrainian citizens. According to Lukashenko's press service, this occurred as part of "agreements reached" with US President Donald Trump and "at the request of the Ukrainian side in order to create conditions for resolving the armed conflict in the neighboring state." The released citizens were immediately handed over to the Ukrainian side.
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.
