A criminal case has been opened against Victoria and she is wanted for participating in protests in Pinsk in 2020 in connection with disagreement with the election results.
In June 2024, her mother was detained and sentenced to six months in prison for participating in protests in Pinsk under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Victoria's underage brother was placed in an orphanage during his mother's imprisonment.
Margarita is a Belarusian opera singer. In 2020, she took part in Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's election campaign and dealt with issues of culture and national heritage in Pavel Latushko's team and in the People's Anti-Crisis Directorate.
During a tour in Lithuania in the fall of 2020, Margarita began to be persecuted in Belarus, after which she was forced to remain abroad.
In March 2024, a criminal case was opened against Margarita as part of a special proceeding, and already in June of the same year, she was convicted in absentia for participating in an “extremist group” - “Rudobelskaya show-off”, sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment and a fine of 800 basic units.
Trial outcome 24.06.2024
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
The resident of Brest was accused of writing 2 comments under a video with Lukashenko on May 24, 2021, in the Facebook group “People’s Verdict”. One message said “sick person”, the second “schizophrenic”.
On May 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
On July 14, 2023, the appeal was considered. Chairman of the Judicial Board Maxim Lapko.
On August 7, 2024, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Minsk, Judge Olga Lavrinovich will make a decision “On replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open correctional facility.”
Trial outcome 11.04.2023:
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction
41 year old Anastasia has worked a lot of places, but the last known place of work is the director of the printing house of LLC «Electronic Agent».
The film on the ONT TV channel showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 in the house of Nastya and her husband Oleg Sychev in the garden association «Berezovaya Roshcha» in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).
Detained with her husband on February 23, 2023. On March 3, she was transferred from the temporary detention center to the Zhodino pre-trial detention center.
He is accused of participating in protest actions.
The family brings up 3 juvenile children.
Trial outcome:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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