Oleg Suprunyuk is known to residents of Brest region as a reporter who covered socially and publicly significant problems of the region. During his time in the profession, he worked for the newspaper "Brest Courier", the online publication "First Region", and collaborated with other independent publications.
The journalist disappeared on January 22, he stopped answering calls and did not appear on social networks. It later became clear that he was detained as part of a criminal case. For almost five months, nothing was known about Oleg's fate.
Previously, the journalist was prosecuted under an administrative article. On December 12, 2024, security forces came to Oleg Suprunyuk with a search. Then they took away his computer equipment and phone, and took him away for questioning. After the interrogation, an administrative protocol was drawn up for allegedly distributing "extremist information products" (under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The journalist was sentenced to 15 days of arrest, and was released on December 27.
On March 19, 2026, he 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).
