It is known that Elena began taking antidepressants while still in pretrial detention. Initially, she received no letters from her family, no money transfers, and no packages. She has a son; he was 10 years old at the beginning of 2026.
Trial outcome 22.04.2024
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial date unknown
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Alenais accused of financing extremist activity as a result of large-scale arrests during the persecution by the authorities for supporting political prisoners and their families with the social food aid project INeedHelpBy.
Mother of former political prisoner Marina Glazova.
On August 27, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
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Tatyana was sentenced to more than six years in prison; the exact term is unknown.
Trial outcome 25.03.2024
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 14.06.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Marina is a Belarusian-speaking IT specialist from EPAM who is also involved in creative work. She writes articles for the Belarusian Wikipedia, makes illustrations, translates into Belarusian, and writes poetry. After the start of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, she moved to Georgia, but then returned to Belarus for unknown reasons. Soon after, she was detained as part of a criminal case and convicted under the articles “financing extremist activity” and “financing or other financial support of war.”
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
According to a pro-government Telegram channel, she was detained along with her son for participating in protests in 2020. On March 6, 2024, she was convicted under an administrative article ( Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus - Petty hooliganism). After that, she was charged under criminal articles.
Trial outcome 17.12.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 25.02.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On February 27, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 29.12.2023:
3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
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Mother of political prisoner blogger Olga Tokarczuk (was released in June 2022 after serving her sentence). She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On February 21, 2024, in the Pinsk District Court, Judge Andrey Bychilo considered the case under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of information products included in the republican list of extremist materials, as well as the production, publication, storage or transportation for the purpose of distributing such information products).
Apparently, a criminal case was opened after this.
Trial outcome 08.02.2024
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was detained along with his entire family (husband, daughter, son) on suspicion of “treason.” The daughter was apparently later released. The details of the case are unknown.
She worked as a nurse at Gomel City Clinical Hospital No. 3. Larisa Prokhorova is a completely non-public person. She was born in 1975 in Grabovka, where she lived all her life.
Participants in a closed process have non-disclosure agreements. It is known from an unofficial source that the criminal case concerns photographing various objects on the territory of Belarus, and the persons involved in the case were monitored by special services for some time before their arrest.
The Prokhorov family lived for a long time in the village of Grabovka, Gomel region. At the time of their arrest, they lived in the village of Uza, Gomel region, where they moved two years ago.
Trial outcome 20.06.2024
8 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 30.08.2024
unknown.
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Detained for donations. Was awarded in the category “Best Graduate of BSU” 2018. After her arrest, Ksenia was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center for several months, after which she was transferred to pre-trial detention center-1, and then to pre-trial detention center-3.
On June 4, 2024, Ksenia’s appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
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Anna was detained on December 18, 2023. After 72 hours, she was still not released. Preliminary, a criminal case was opened for insulting Lukashenko and a police officer.
Anna was convicted of several criminal charges, including "assistance to extremist activity," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine. The trial was held behind closed doors.
Presumably, one of the reasons for the persecution was her solidarity with political prisoners - it is known that Anna actively wrote letters to them.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
It is known that Nadezhda has two adult daughters and a minor son with disabilities.
On March 1, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 21.12.2023:
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Presumably detained for giving interviews to foreign media.
It is known that Ekaterina was detained at the beginning of summer in one nightie, in which she was kept in a pre-trial detention center until the first transfer from her relatives.
At the beginning of April 2024, Belsat sources gave the editors a letter from Ekaterina. On a piece of toilet paper, she described her horrific detention and subsequent imprisonment:
“I fell from the second floor of the bed, my head on a wooden bench. They took a picture, but they haven’t reported the result for more than a month.”
“They put it on the flag, beat the whole office. They said it was for my interviews, the channel and for my fiery appeals.”
On July 16, 2024, the appeal was considered.
Trial outcome 12.03.2024:
6.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
A former accountant at the Vavilov Minsk Electrotechnical Plant . The trial began on May 19 and was held behind closed doors, so little information about the charges is available. It is known that Anna was fired from her job following the "People's Ultimatum" in 2020, and then sued the company for wrongful dismissal.
Anna's youngest child was only 5 months old when she was detained.
Trial outcome 24.05.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Alexandra was detained in February 2023 upon her return to Belarus and sentenced the next day under an administrative article for "dissemination of extremist materials" to 10 days. However, after serving her arrest, she was never released, as a criminal case was opened against her for two interviews with an information resource recognized as an "extremist group."
She was accused of assisting “extremist groups,” administering Telegram channels, inciting hatred, insulting the authorities, disseminating personal data, and slandering Lukashenko, and was convicted under eight criminal articles.
In March 2024, the court heard the appeal and reduced her sentence by one year, without the right to further appeal.
In May 2024, it became known that she was convicted again for “insulting a government official and a judge.”
In the spring of 2025, information appeared that another criminal case had been opened against Alexandra, and she was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
9 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 31.05.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 100 basic values fine.
Final verdict by partial addition:
9 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 100 basic values fine.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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