Political prisoners

Elena has 2 juvenile daughters (born in 2014 and 2015).

Detained for participating in protests in 2020. Sentenced to "household chemicals".

At the beginning of February 2024, she was detained allegedly for violating the regime, after which Natalya was not released, and a criminal case was opened against her. According to preliminary data, she is charged with “treason to the state.”

Nastya Loiko is a well—known Belarusian human rights activist. Nastya was persecuted for her human rights activities, since August 2021 she has been a suspect in a criminal case related to the activities of the human rights organization «‎Viasna».

On September 6, 2022, after attending a court hearing on the «‎Revolutionary Action» case, Nastya was twice convicted of disorderly conduct and spent 30 days in custody. 3 weeks after her release, on 28.10.2022, Nastya was detained again. At the trial, Nastya declared torture (employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption hit her with a stun gun and left her for 8 hours without outerwear in the cold, which made her ill). In custody, Nastya is still without warm clothes and personal hygiene products.

On November 28, 2022, it became known that Nastya was sentenced again for 15 days under Article 19.1 (Petty hooliganism). For the fifth time in the fall.

In mid-December, she was detained for the 6th time under the same article, and at the end of the month she was charged under criminal articles and transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1 («SIZO-1»). According to the prosecution, one of her human rights reports on the persecution of the anarchist community in Belarus in 2018 contains a negative assessment of the illegal actions of police officers, which became the basis for initiating a criminal case against her. The group against which other social animosity was allegedly incited is a professional social group of law enforcement officers. As noted by human rights activists, such an interpretation of the article does not comply with international human rights standards, as evidenced by the practice of international judicial bodies.

Almost at the beginning of the court session, the process was closed.

Leader of the independent trade union "Naftan". Olga worked at the company for 16 years and was fired because of her position. In May 2022, she was released after 75 days of arrest for speaking out against the war. She was detained on November 1 again under administrative charges.

Two days later, the court found her guilty of distributing “extremist materials” and sentenced her to 15 days of arrest. On November 11, she was again sentenced to 15 days for “unauthorized picketing.” The reason for the investigation was a drawing with the inscription “No to war”, which Olga published on social networks.
On November 21, 2022, it became known that Olga was transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Vitebsk.

In less than 2022, Britikova spent 105 days behind bars, including 75 days in a row in the spring.

She was detained again under Article 361 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus in August 2023. However, in the spring of 2024, Olga was tried under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On June 11, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

Detained in the case of A. Hralovich. The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.

Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which Television News Agency showed in 2021.

It is known that Olga was held for a year in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, where she was on a hunger strike. Then she was transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.

«She was completely gray-haired. She was on hunger strike for a long time — she was even fed through the veins on her hands, so they were swollen like forest driftwood».

She began serving her sentence.

As it became known from the court ruling, Anastasia, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, moved from Belarus to Poland. While in a neighboring country, she tried to donate $16.71 from her Belarusian bank account via Internet banking to the Kalinovsky regiment, but the transaction did not go through.

Later, the political prisoner decided to return to Belarus, where she was detained. It should be noted that at the time of the transfer of funds by Anastasia, the Kalinovsky regiment was not recognized as an "extremist formation."

The wife of the convicted blogger Igor Losik.

Cjnhelybrb law enforcement agencies came home to the Losik's at 8 a.m. Daria herself and her two year old daughter Polina were sleeping.

According to the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Daria is accused of facilitating extremist activities in the form of a conversation with the Belsat TV channel in the spring of 2022, despite the fact that the TV channel was recognized as an extremist formation in November 2021. Such an interview, according to the authors of the post, may entail criminal liability under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code on facilitating extremist activity.

The former MSLU teacher was detained in early October 2022 as part of a criminal case for participating in protests. She was detained by at least six law enforcement officers.

Prior to that, during the year Natalia was detained four times and tried on politically motivated administrative articles.

The trial was held behind closed doors.

She was detained together with her husband for hanging a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine in a 19-storey building on Lesya Ukrainka Street.

After their detention, the channel in the Zello mobile application, through which they communicated during the rally, was recognized as an extremist formation.