The Belarusian Hanna Kandratsenka sentenced to three years in prison for insulting representative of the authorities, insulting the President of Belarus and insulting a judge or a people’s assessor. Hanna was sent to the Homel women’s colony. According to the former political prisoner, who was in the detachment with Hanna, girl has only a mother …
Belarusian Meryem Herasimenka was sentenced to three years of restriction of liberty without serving the sentence in a correctional institution (“home chemistry”) because she sang a song by the Ukrainian group Okean Elzy in Minsk. In March 2022 (after the outbreak of the full-scale invasion), Meriem posted a fragment of the song “1914” by her …
Belarusian political prisoner Victoryja Naviсkaya is the sister of Yan Melnikаu, Kastus Kalinouski regiment’s volunteer. She was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for being the sister of a man who defends Ukraine. Here is what her cellmate says about Victoryja: “Vika served 26 days at the detention center, then she …
Belarusian political prisoner Hanna Pyshnik is 29 years old. She was sentenced to three years in prison for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. According to the indictment, Hanna recorded a video on her iPhone showing the trail of a flying military object and sent it to an “extremist” Telegram channel. She also left …
Female political prisoner Viera Tsvikievich has fully served her sentence for a political article. The woman spoke about political prisoner Zinaida Mikhaniuk, an activist of the REP trade union, who was sentenced to two years in prison. “I met Zinaida in penal colony No. 4. We were in the same unit, the 5th one, for …
Former political prisoner Hanna spoke about journalist Iryna Slaunikava. Iryna was detained at Minsk airport on her way back from holiday with her husband. The woman was sentenced to five years in a penal colony. “Ira was in another unit, but we were in the same shift, so we saw each other every day at …
Alena Hnauk, 66, was tried under three “protest articles”. When the pensioner was already serving her sentence in the Homieĺ penal colony, a new criminal case was brought against her under Article 411 – “persistent disobedience to lawful demands of the administration”. Alena received another year in prison. Behind bars, the activist from Pružany experienced …
Natallia Taran, a 75-year-old Belarusian woman, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on three charges – allegedly for insulting a representative of the authorities, the official head of state, and for slandering him. Natallia is serving her sentence in Homieĺ penal colony, and she suffers from a number of chronic diseases.
Liudmila Khlusevich, a pensioner, was sentenced to two years of restricted freedom under home confinement (“chatniaja khimiya”) for one word written online. Liudmila has leukemia. The woman went through searches, 10 interrogations, a criminal investigation due to one case, and an accusation due to another one. While awaiting trial, Liudmila wrote a note in case …
Iryna But-Husaim was sentenced to 1.5 years in a general-security imprisonment for actions that grossly violate public order. The High Court upheld the decision without any changes, and she is currently serving her sentence in a general-security penal colony.
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