Natalia Yaroshenko

Natalia Yaroshenko is the sister of former political prisoner Lyudmila Goncharenko. She spent 147 days in the Gomel temporary detention center, and then she was deported to Ukraine with a ban on entry to Belarus for five years. During her imprisonment, the woman was also interrogated by the KGB, forced to admit that she had filmed Russian military equipment. Natalia had to undergo a polygraph test, the results of which she was never informed of. "But I really didn't film anything, I didn't do anything," she says.

According to Natalia, she spent six days in a punishment cell. There was nothing there except for high bunks knocked together from planks, a washbasin and a toilet. "I felt sick. They called a doctor - I had high blood pressure," Natalia recalls. After that, she was returned to a regular cell. In the temporary detention center, Natalia, according to her, a vein burst in her leg, the woman asked for a month to be taken to the hospital. For almost five months of imprisonment, the interviewee did not have any walks or parcels.