Alesya Petrovna Brinevets
Head of the special department of Penal Colony No. 15.
Involved in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens.
Head of the special department of Penal Colony No. 15.
Involved in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens.
List of repressed
In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family: Yan, Anastasia, and Ales Papkovich.
Special forces stormed Yan's apartment. During the arrest, the officers fired a shot from an automatic weapon and wounded the dog, which had started barking at them.
Yan spent a month in a KGB pretrial detention center, where he was tortured and unable to walk. BT reports portrayed Yan as a mercenary planning to go to Ukraine. It is known that Yan pleaded not guilty at his trial. One of the witnesses stated that "they pressured him, and he signed whatever they told him." As evidence of Yan's guilt, the investigation presented his private correspondence with his wife, as well as with friends who, according to investigators, serve in Kalinovsky's regiment in Ukraine.
Yan worked as a cash collector at Belgazprombank.
In March 2024 and April 2025, Yana was convicted twice under the article “malicious disobedience to the legal demands of the colony administration,” and in total, another year of imprisonment was added to her existing sentence.
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.
Detained for insulting an official on social media.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of October 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
- Associations
- Bloggers
He was convicted of administering a Telegram channel that published footage from protests at the Pushkinskaya metro station in Minsk. Vladimir himself had previously been detained, as he recounted in a video. He was arrested at one of the protests and given a 10-12-day sentence. His home was searched, and his electronics and phone were seized. Some time after his release, he was detained again for 24 hours and then released on bail. A criminal case was opened against him, but he was only taken into custody a year later.
He was released in January 2025, having served his full sentence.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to information from pro-government telegram channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020 and registering in the Peramoga plan.
On March 21, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
The trial was held behind closed doors, and the details of the case are unknown.
Pro-government media reported that Mikhail was going to join Kalinovsky's regiment. He was detained on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
According to human rights activists, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Convicted of participation in an extremist group.
On September 30, 2022, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
05/06/2024 released after fully serving his sentence.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
A resident of Mogilev. Presumably detained on June 3, 2022. According to pro-government media, he was detained while attempting to illegally cross the border in order to join the Kalinovsky Regiment in Ukraine.
The trial was held in the Gomel Regional Court behind closed doors. According to the investigation , the young man intended to enlist in the separate Belarusian regiment named after Kastus Kalinouski.
06.09.2024 released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.
| 26.11.2022 | Consideration of the appeal on December 9, 2022. |
Kozlovsky, on September 27, 2020, on Nezavisimist Avenue in Minsk, stood in a clutch with his elbows in the first row of citizens who were walking along the roadway. As a result, according to investigators, the movement of public transport was blocked and there was a malfunction in its work.
As a result, the court sentenced Alexander to imprisonment. The judge explained her position on Kozlovsky by the fact that he had previously been brought to criminal responsibility, and committed a number of crimes while alcohol intoxicated.
04/04/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Athletes
He is a Master of Sports in powerlifting.
It is known that Branovitsky signed a letter on the cessation of repression on behalf of athletes at the end of August 2020.
They are accused of hanging protest symbols.
1 year in prison.
Andrey worked at the Minsk Tractor Plant before his arrest. He was detained for leaving comments about the death of Andrei Zeltser and an employee of the State security committee.
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3 years imprisonment in a colony
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Maxim was detained on June 2, 2022 as part of a criminal case on protest graffiti.
He has a wife and a small child.
On March 16, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Alexander Mishuk is the vice-chairman of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP) and the chairman of the primary organization of the BNP OJSC Belaruskali. He was detained after a search of the office.
The prosecutor's office accused Alexander of speaking to workers with the "purpose of creating a strike committee." In turn, Alexander explained his performance as an emotional outburst, since at that time everyone was under the influence of emotions due to mass violence from the security forces.
On November 14, 2022, at the next meeting, the prosecutor asked Alexandra for three years in prison.
Released in July 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted for graffiti "Cut OMON". Released on July 4, 2022 after the expiration of the sentence.
1 year in prison.
