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Ekaterina Novikova

Belarusian Еkaterina Novikava was arrested in a nightgown. Before receiving the transfer, the woman wore a nightgown in the detention center. Now Yekaterina is in pre-trial detention center-1 in Volodarskogo, and she needs support in the form of money transfers. With their help, the Belarusian woman can buy necessary hygiene and food in the prison …

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Aksana Zareckaya

Political prisoner Aksana Zareckaya is a member of the main staff of the Coordinating Council, a coach in etiquette and business communication, a culturologist, a master of pedagogy, the founder of the School of Business Culture and Etiquette.  The court sentenced Zareckaya to 1.5 years in prison. After the verdict was announced, Aksana felt bad.  …

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Kaciaryna Zareckaja

In mid-September last year, security forces detained five Minsk residents for hanging large national flags of Belarus and Ukraine on the facade of a house on Lesya Ukrainka Street in Minsk.  Kaciaryna Zareckaja was among those detainees. She was sentenced to five years in prison for this.

Volha Tserakh

In mid-September, security forces detained five residents of Minsk for hanging large national flags of Belarus and Ukraine on the facade of a house on Lesia Ukrainka Street. A criminal case was opened against the detainees for “malicious hooliganism”.  Volha Tserakh was among those detainees. She was sentenced to five years in prison.

You can survive in a pre-trial detention center if you have two things: a bottle and a big mouth

Political prisoner Alena (name is changed) was in a pre-trial detention center for several months.  She saidwhat helped her to survive there. “In this center, you learn to make the bed in an unrealistic and inadequate way, to wash the floor squatting without a mop, to take a “shower” from a bottle over the toilet …

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Anastasija Lazarenka

Attorney Anastasija Lazarenka began practicing in 2011 and has provided legal assistance in criminal, civil, administrative, labor and family cases, and since the summer of 2020 she has also defended citizens in politically motivated cases.  During the most difficult period, she advised pro-bono at Akrestsina prisons and actively participated in the public life of Belarus.  …

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Hanna Kandratsenka

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 …

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Meryem Herasimenka

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 …

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Victoryja Naviсkaya: “She went to court with the feeling that they would not let her out. And they didn’t let her out.”

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 …

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