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
- Parents of minors
He is a musician.
Telegram channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that a 32 year old man allegedly insulted Lukashenko in the comments (the comment consists of only one word «trash», written under the news with a quote from Lukashenko that special services with vast experience are working against us today) .
The second charge also concerns Sergey's Internet activity. According to the prosecution, no later than 14:39 on February 27, 2022, the man sent a photo of the bulletin with two checkmarks to the NEXTA telegram bot. Thus, according to the prosecution, Sergey committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Promotion of extremist activity).
A defendant in a criminal case initiated after the murder of KGB officer Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser. Before her arrest, she worked at BelTA in a management position.
She was released in the second half of April 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained for driving a car near Pinsk and looking at the location of military units. According to the investigation, Anton sent this data to a Belarusian Telegram channel and to someone in Ukraine.
Anton was tried for leaking state secrets. The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of how the hearing went are unknown.
In November 2024, he was released after serving his sentence.
The guy studied at the 1st year, but after February 24, 2022, according to his confession at the trial, he became less interested in studying. And I began to look for options to help the Ukrainian side win.
During the court interrogation, the guy stated his version: he decided to get to Ukraine in order to provide any assistance that might be needed. But the priority in assistance would be: first of all medical, then logistical, technical.
In Bobruisk on June 6, 2023, a guy was tried under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code for "malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of the correctional institution." The verdict is unknown.
Vasily is known to be 30 years old. He was charged with the fact that on March 16, 2022, in one of the public Viber chats uniting the workers of the Brest carriage depot, he posted a video with deliberately unreliable information about the economic and social situation of the Republic of Belarus.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment.
- Associations
- Workers
Yuri is accused of the fact that on January 25, 2022, from his mobile phone “in order to humiliate the honor and dignity of the head of state, guided by base motives” in one of the online communities, he wrote a comment about Lukashenko: “He organized terrorism and genocide in the country, and also "were engaged in occupation."
According to linguistic expertise, this comment “has a negative assessment of the activities of the head of state, which is not true.”
It is known that the man is 39 years old, he is from Ivanovo, a builder by training. Before his arrest, Yuri lived and worked in Russia for several years and visited Belarus on vacation.
According to human rights activists, he was released in early spring 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Dmitry was accused of sending photos and videos of military equipment with comments to the «Nexta» chat-bot in a telegram.
On February 12, 2022, he sent a video showing an unmarked plane flying at night, and he made a similar video on February 27. On March 3, Dmitry took off a tanker truck with the identification mark «V». On March 17, he sent a photo and video where something was allegedly launched from Baranovichi towards Ukraine.
None of these materials, as well as textual information, have been published in the «Nexta» channels.
Detained for a comment in a telegram chat after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment. Victor suffers from diabetes, an insulin-dependent form, and has a disability.
On May 17, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of the general regime.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
As Sergei himself explained in court, he took the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine to heart and followed the news.
At the same time, from the beginning of April 2022, discord began in his family. Trying to cope with his experiences, he turned to alcohol.
On April 14, amid yet more family problems, Sergei Voytyuk left home for the border with Ukraine. Witnesses in the case (border guards, a taxi driver, etc.) testified that in their presence Sergei said that he was going to join Kalinovsky's battalion.
He was released in the summer of 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
Convicted of placing portraits of the president in public places, having previously committed offensive actions with them.
According to human rights activists , he was released in February 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The young man was charged with the fact that on February 27, 2022, he sent a video of a military aircraft to the telegram bot. Since this video was posted on the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, these actions were qualified under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Support of extremist activity).
Konstantin was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Factory workers
A worker of the local JSC of the Ivatsevichi district.
On November 9, 2020, Yuri wrote a comment with the word: «creature», in one of the telegram chats under a post with a photo of one of the special purpose police officers.
A year and a half later, they came to him with a search. During the search, in addition to protest symbols, a jar of cannabis was found, which Yuri personally collected six months ago in a field (for this Yuri was convicted under Article 328).
On September 22, 2022, another sentence was passed under Article 369.
Truck driver from the Brest region.
Convicted of insulting Lukashenko A.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Journalists
Journalist for "Intex-press" from Baranovichi.
He was arrested on April 27, 2022. On April 29, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail.
About a week after the journalist's arrest, a video fragment from his interrogation appeared on pro-government Telegram channels, along with information about the reason for Gontarevich's arrest: he allegedly photographed Russian military equipment and sent the images to media outlets deemed extremist by the Belarusian authorities.
He was released at the end of summer 2024 .
On the night of February 21-22, 2022, Pavel spray-painted several inscriptions around Brest: at a public transport stop he wrote “Long live Belarus”; on the building of the stronghold of the police in the microdistrict "Kovalevo" wrote "ACAB"; wrote an obscene phrase on the balcony and facade of another building. Pavel was arrested and taken into custody.
Released after expiration of sentence
3 months of arrest
