Elena is accused under Part 3 of Article 361-1 (creation of an extremist group or participation in it) of the Criminal Code.
The case is presumably related to "yard chats." As a reminder, in the fall of 2024, a wave of arrests swept across Belarus's regions in connection with yard chats that were allegedly "attempting to organize." Around the same time, the KGB designated a number of yard chats as "extremist groups": "Zlye Kogtiki," "Sukharevo," "Senica2.0," "Solidarity," "Volnyya Vauki," "Navagrudskiya Partisany," "VILIYA," "Skromnye Matryoshka," and "Sosedi."
It is known that Elena is free , but the sentence for the political article , the place where she will serve her sentence , and the date of her release are unknown due to the closed judicial system in Belarus.
