journalist, politician. Member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, founder of the newspaper "Vitebsky Courier", founder of the organization "Our House".
Trial outcome 08.07.2024
12 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 12000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
Candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the 2020 elections. After the announcement of the official results, protests began. Tikhanovskaya announced the usurpation of power by the incumbent president and called for new and fair elections. On August 11, 2020, Tikhanovskaya left Belarus. Her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, a blogger and politician, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Olga Kovalkova, Maria Moroz, Sergei Dylevsky were tried in the same criminal case. In total, they were charged with 12 articles.
On January 11, Svyatlana Tikhanovskaya applied to the Minsk City Court demanding that she be granted the right to familiarize herself with the materials of the case in her trial in absentia. She also notified the court that she was going to exercise her right to a lawyer. She also wrote to the Minsk City and Republican Bar Associations that she wanted to contact the lawyer assigned to her and work out a position.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya stressed that she considers the procedure of trial in absentia a violation of basic human rights and freedoms.
in the telegram channel of the pro-government department, she is called the administrator of the “extremist formation Black Book of Belarus.” Yanina also leads the YouTube channel "Dzikae palyavanne".
A defendant in a criminal case initiated after the murder of KGB officer Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser. Before her arrest, she worked at BelTA in a management position.
She was releasedin the second half of April 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 07.09.2022:
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
She is a Student of «Mogilev State University Kuleshov's name».
According to the prosecution, the girl reposted a publication in the chat criticizing the actions of Putin and Lukashenko with calls to go outside if the Belarusian army enters the war.
Detained on March 6, 2022 for comments in Telegram channels.
The hearings were held behind closed doors. It is known that Judge Nikolai Dolya sentenced the woman to imprisonment , the length of which is being determined by human rights activists.
She was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 24.11.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the case materials , in January 2021, Gavrilov purchased and provided two acquaintances, Tatyana and Oleg Birulya, with aerosol cans of paint. After which, from January to February 2021, the latter applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure objects in Soligorsk, "causing them to become damaged." They also applied an inscription to the wall of one of the houses regarding Lukashenko, "in which they accused him of a particularly serious crime, that is, they committed slander."
Then, from August to December 2021, the accused distributed leaflets and other printed materials in Soligorsk . The content of these leaflets was allegedly aimed at inciting social hatred and discord on the basis of a different social affiliation.
At the end of winter 2024, it became known that Tatyana was being transferred to a prison in Zhodino.
Trial outcome 12.12.2022
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Arrested for commenting on the Zeltser case. According to relatives, she was tried for videos and comments on Tik-Tok. Alina suffers from epilepsy. A psychiatric examination was appointed in the case - the break lasted a month. The daughter is waiting for the political prisoner at home.
According to human rights activists, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
a teacher at Lida's music school, detained for commenting after the murder of A. Zeltser on September 30, 2021. Oksana left a comment under the post of anti-people reporter Alexander Pleskachev about the murder of a law enforcement officer with the following content: "Andrei Zeltser defended his house, his family in his apartment from unknown people who broke down the door with an ax. He defended himself as best he could ... ".
04.12.2021
Translated. 230023 Grodno, st. Kirova, 1 Prison 1.
On September 30, 2021, she was detained in Krupki in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of Dmitry Fedosyuk, an employee of the State Security Committee, and Andrei Zeltser, an IT specialist, in a Minsk apartment.
30.03.2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
Trial outcome 18.07.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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