Before the trial, Daria was kept in custody with her husband . They were accused of blocking roads on one of the Marches in 2020. The main evidence in the case is a photo with a poster from the book "I'm getting out."
Trial outcome 06.12.2022:
3 years of restriction of liberty without referral to an open correctional facility
The wife of political prisoner Artem Anishchuk , was detained on November 4, 2022. Then she was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for reposting a post from Nasha Niva. After 10 days, Olga was not released. A “repentant video” appeared with her, in which she says that she was subscribed to “extremist” channels and made reposts from them. Pro-government telegram channels wrote that Anishchuk "is a candidate to spend the New Year in a temporary detention facility, as dozens of reposts have been recorded." Also, according to the security forces, Olga "fueled the situation around the penitentiary system with stuffing and fakes, bombarded government agencies with far-fetched complaints." On November 16, Olga was sentenced to 14 days of arrest for reposting from the Zerkalo telegram channel. On November 28, she was sentenced to another 10 days of arrest.
According to human rights activists, Olga has already been ill with bronchitis twice behind bars, as she is kept in inhuman conditions and sleeps on a concrete floor. In the Mogilev TDF, where she was transferred after the Akrestsin TDF, she is bullied and pressured - three times a day she is forced to undress to the naked and squat. In protest against this, on November 28, Olga Anishchuk went on a hunger strike.
On December 8, 2022, Olga left the temporary detention facility at the end of her administrative arrest.
She was detained for participating in the 2020 protests in Grodno together with Lyudmila Mazurkevich. As a result, Natalia was sentenced to probation. In January 2024, Natalia was detained during a raid by security forces on relatives of political prisoners and people of solidarity. Natalia was not released.
Trial outcome 17.03.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 04.10.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Oksana worked as a notary for more than 17 years, the last place of work was the Notary Office No. 2 of the Savetsky district of the city of Minsk. According to pro-government telegram channels , detained for participating in protests in 2020.
She was detained on November 4, 2022 and sentenced to 13 days of administrative arrest. After the end of the arrest, Evgenia was not released, but was charged under criminal articles: first for insulting Lukashenka, then for participating in post-election protests.
Trial outcome 15.02.2023:
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
She was detained along with her husband . Irina was on bail until the trial. From the materials of the case , it became known that the family was found by a photo from the phone of Irina-Victor's husband. He told the court that on that day he and his wife decided to take a walk and watch what was happening. According to Viktor, they really took a photo with his wife on the roadway on Independence Avenue, but the poster and ribbons with which they were photographed do not belong to them. Irina at the trial was unable to tell the details of that day, as she does not remember the reasons for their prescription. But, like her husband, she noted that on that day she did not shout out slogans and did not clap her hands.
Trial outcome 29.11.2022:
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Helena Yarmusik on Facebook, in the comments to the photo of an OMON officer of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee, "spread information containing a charge of murder." According to the woman , she was shocked by the information about the infliction of bodily injuries by the riot police officers on the woman. In her appeal, Yarmusik said that the court did not take into account that she had reached retirement age, did not receive a pension, lived on odd jobs, and was suffering from illnesses. It is also not taken into account that she fully admitted her guilt, repented of her deed, apologized to the victim and positively characterized. In her appeal, Yarmusik said that the court did not take into account that she had reached retirement age, did not receive a pension, lived on odd jobs, and was suffering from illnesses.
Trial outcome:
1 year of restriction of liberty without a referral.
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