Alla was detained during a "solidarity raid" in late January 2024 on charges of supporting political prisoners and their families. That fall, she was convicted of a number of criminal offenses, including "assisting extremist activity" and "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 03.10.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Alla was detained during a "solidarity raid" in late January 2024 on charges of supporting political prisoners and their families. That fall, she was convicted of "assisting extremist activity" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 30.10.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Elena, a nurse at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Children's Oncology, Hematology, and Immunology, was arrested and convicted of "assisting extremist activity" and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 19.09.2024
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Elena Toporkova is 54 years old. She graduated from the Belarusian State Polytechnical Academy (now BNTU).
Elena was likely detained during a raid on those in solidarity with political prisoners that took place at the end of January 2024.
People caught in the raid on those in solidarity with political prisoners, which took place from January 23 to 24, say that the number of those who were subject to criminal cases may be much higher than human rights activists know. Completely non-public people simply made transfers or sent parcels to political prisoners from their own funds.
On March 19, 2026, she was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Trial outcome 12.09.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The couple (Vyacheslav Berezovets and Tatyana Danilyuk) were placed in custody for taking part in protests in Kobrin on August 10, 2020, where the woman "made obscene gestures to the police," and her husband "pulled down his pants and showed his bare buttocks."
The Investigative Committee notes that the couple still has three young children at large.
On November4,2024, the Kobrin District Court held a trial of Tatyana and Vyacheslav "on the recovery of expenses incurred by the state for the maintenance of children in state care. " And onDecember 24, 2024, the Kobrin District Court held a trial of Tatyana "on determining the child's place of residence."
These hearingsindicatethatTatyana and Vyacheslav Berezovtsy hadtheir youngchildren taken away whilethey were imprisonedfor politicalpersecution .
Most likely she was sentenced to "house arrest" .
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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