Former political prisonersForced emigration

Krystsina Arkadzeuna Vasilkova

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

In late January 2022, Krystsina and her husband Mikhail were detained in a criminal case over participation in the 2020 protests in Minsk. Krystsina was held in a pre-trial detention center until the trial.

In April 2022, Krystsina was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the article "Organisation and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility. She was released in the courtroom.

Krystsina later left Belarus.

In December 2024, a court hearing in absentia on toughening her punishment was held under special proceedings.

Sentences

Trial outcome 07.04.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 24.12.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Elena Gennadyevna Zhukovich
Elena Gennadyevna Zhukovich
Judges22 july 1980
Place:
court of the Soviet district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
07.04.2022
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Lydia Fedorovna Telica
Lydia Fedorovna Telica
Judges16 july 1975
Place:
court of the Moscow district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
24.12.2024
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Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Overseers20 april 1978
Place:
SIZO-1
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Krystsina Arkadzeuna Vasilkova
In custody:
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
22.03.1994
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Timeline

  1. 2022
  2. 31.01.2022

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 — In custody

  3. 07.04.2022

    Trial outcome 07.04.2022

    3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, court of the Soviet district of Minsk

  4. 07.04.2022

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  5. ~01.06.2022

    Status change

    Forced emigration

  6. 2024
  7. 24.12.2024

    Regime change trial 24.12.2024

    unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia), court of the Moscow district of Minsk