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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The Overchuk brothers were detained in early June. Pro-government telegram channels reported this. In the confessional video, the men say that on August 10, 2020, they were in Brest at a protest rally.
Also involved in this case are Oleg Litvinchuk and Alevtina Gudkova. His brother Matvey was also detained.
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2025.
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2025.
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Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
He is expected to be released on April 29, 2025.
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Irina Pogadaeva is 54 years old. She is from Brest. She worked at a local library as a bibliographer. Judging by social networks, she has two children.
At the end of January 2024, when she was tried for “distributing extremist materials.” At the end of 2023, she was included in the “extremist formation.” This was recognized by the Facebook community “Letters of Solidarity Belarus 2020”, in which people exchanged letters from political prisoners and also discussed helping prisoners.
In total, the case involves more than thirty episodes in which a woman sent money to political prisoners in pre-trial detention centers in Minsk, Gomel and other cities of the country. Basically, we are talking about amounts of 4-5 rubles. In just less than a year and a half (from August 2021 to December 2022), Irina sent 188 rubles. This was enough to initiate a criminal case and arrest in May 2024.
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Igor is a physical education teacher at Baranovichi Secondary School No. 1. He was detained in the first half of 2024. In a "confession video" published on a pro-government channel, he "admits" to making offensive comments about police officers and Lukashenko.
In November of that year, he was convicted on four criminal charges: "insulting Lukashenko," "insulting a government official," "calling for sanctions," and "inciting hatred." The case was heard behind closed doors.
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.
On 11.06.2024, the appeal was heard and the sentence came into force. He was released on conviction.
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She worked for the state newspaper "Brestsky Vestnik" (founded by the city executive committee) and the television and radio company "Brest".
Previously, Elena Timoshchuk collaborated as a freelancer with the regional publications Vecherniy Brest, Brestskiy Kurier, Brestskaya Gazeta, the online publication Virtualny Brest, and the Brest Green Portal.
As local journalists note , Elena Tymoshchuk did not prepare publications on political topics during her collaboration with independent publications. Sometimes she wrote advertising articles and wrote on psychology topics, as she has a higher education in this specialty.
It is still not exactly known what caused the criminal prosecution of the journalist. According to the verdict, in addition to imprisonment, Elena was sentenced to a fine of 46,000 rubles. On 16.08.2024, an appeal hearing was held, and the verdict came into force.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries. Among those released is Elena Tymoshchuk.
He was convicted for participating in a protest that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020.
He was expected to be released on November 1 , 2025 .
He was convicted for participating in a protest that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020.
According to human rights activists , he was released in May 2025, having served his entire sentence.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to 11, 2020, then-minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolai Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, and Maksim Sobolev, while on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Kosmonavtov and Shevchenko Boulevards, and Sovetskaya Street in Brest, " shouted slogans, displayed white-red-white banners, grossly violating public order, and deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of businesses and organizations."
At the court hearing, everyone admitted their guilt completely.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2025.
It is reported that Yulia Sharanova participated in the protests at the age of 16, and Nikita Voytyuk and Nikolai Nikityuk were 17 years old.
In 2022, Alexey was prosecuted for comments he left on social media, but the criminal case was dismissed three times after expert examinations due to a lack of evidence of a crime.
In November 2023, he was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened based on the same comments. On April 8, 2024, Alexei was found guilty of five criminal charges, including "discrediting the Republic of Belarus" and "insulting Alexander Lukashenko," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony and a large fine.
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.
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Nikita, Larisa Yakhimovich's son, was arrested in March 2024 as part of a criminal case opened following the spontaneous protests that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020, against voter fraud in the presidential election. He was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order."
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.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to 11, 2020, then-minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolai Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, and Maksim Sobolev, while on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Kosmonavtov and Shevchenko Boulevards, and Sovetskaya Street in Brest, " shouted slogans, displayed white-red-white banners, grossly violating public order, and deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of businesses and organizations."
At the court hearing, everyone admitted their guilt completely.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2025.