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Natallia Parkhomenka
Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Deputy Head for Correctional Process. Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service. Previously, she held the position of Senior Inspector of the Correctional Process Organization Group of the Department of Corrections for the Gomel Region.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. She is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression.
Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Deputy Head for Correctional Process. Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service. Previously, she held the position of Senior Inspector of the Correctional Process Organization Group of the Department of Corrections for the Gomel Region.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. She is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression.
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Svetlana was convicted for her comments and participation in protests.
Released on July 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
2.5 years in prison
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Programmer at SamSolutions.
On September 15, 2023, the appeal was heard.
In the summer of 2025, she suffered from pneumonia and was hospitalized in the medical unit.
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).
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Zhanna was arrested on May 11, 2023, right at School No. 63, where she had come to meet her child's teacher. In October of that year, she was convicted on several criminal charges, including "inciting hatred."
According to media reports, during the 2020 protests, police detained her on administrative charges.
According to human rights activists, Zhanna was expected to be released in the winter of 2026.
According to the case materials , in February 2022, she posted a comment that "insulted and humiliated the honor and dignity" of Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov and "was aimed at undermining the authority of government officials." After the publication of a video on the CyberSlivy Telegram channel with a leaked telephone conversation between Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov from September 2020, which became evidence that the police were telling judges what decisions to make for participants in peaceful protests. More than two dozen people left comments under it, including Ekaterina Lev. Ekaterina was detained a year later - on February 1, 2023.
Released on August 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Natalia Zhlobo works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literature of the Faculty of English at Moscow State Linguistic University.
The arrest took place at the end of March, and since then Natalya has been in jail. The exact reason for the detention, as well as the number of the criminal article, is still unknown, but we are talking about a political case .
On October 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
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The ONT TV channel showed a “repentance” video with Victoria. A criminal case was opened against her and she was placed in custody. In the story, she is accused of evading taxes, subscribing to “extremist” channels, leaking data from security forces, participating in the Peramoga plan, and financing extremist activities. The court found Victoria guilty of providing funds to knowingly support the activities of an extremist group, deliberately illegally collecting and providing information about the private life and personal data of another person without his consent.
Together with Victoria, her husband Dmitry was detained, who served 30 days of administrative arrest and was released.
Dmitry is the director of the Gomel Motor Repair Plant, the vocalist of the ethno-group “Ban-Graviyba”, and Victoria is an entrepreneur. They are also famous dancers.
3 years 3 months imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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Ksenia, an employee of the IT company Game Stream, was detained on March 11, 2023, in Minsk. According to security officials, in 2020–2021, she made nine payments to solidarity funds via Facebook donations, totaling $425. Pro-government Telegram channels published a video of the search, during which a white-red-white flag, $20,000, and office equipment were found and confiscated from Ksenia Alkenova.
In July of that year, she was convicted 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.
According to the case materials , in December 2022, Tamara Karavai posted slanderous information about Alexander Lukashenko on the Internet via a messenger on the Odnoklassniki social network.
At the court hearing, Karavai fully admitted her guilt, but refused to testify.
It is known that Tamara Karavai has a minor child in her care. She was released on July 20, 2024, by pardon.
Tamara died in the spring of 2025. The woman's acquaintances reported her death to Nasha Niva . The official reason was that her heart gave out. The exact date of death is unknown, but Tamara was last online on VKontakte on April 23, 2025.
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According to the case materials , Olga Ivanchenko posted on her Odnoklassniki page in the public domain “text with an image containing deliberately false fabrications that disgrace Alexander Lukashenko, humiliate his honor and dignity, and are aimed at undermining his authority and creating a negative image.”
In addition, the woman posted “comments with a negative assessment of him, containing obscene language” under the post with an image of Alexander Lukashenko.
Olga has an autism spectrum disorder . After her arrest, she was held for about a month at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health in Novinki.
On 20.06.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the fall of 2024.
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39 year old Irena is a specialist of the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre, she was detained in the summer of 2022. It is known that the woman has 4 minor children. Slander was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code.
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Pensioner. Was detained at home for commenting.
On February 27, 2023, the woman turned 68 years old, which she met in prison.
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6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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She was sentenced to house chemistry for insulting A. Lukashenko. After that, she insulted Lukashenko again by phone, dialing 102. She has a leg disease, cannot move independently, and is disabled.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in January 2025.
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Natalia was first convicted in January 2023 for an online comment under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to one and a half years of restricted freedom, known as "house arrest."
In September of that year, Natalia was arrested again and convicted on a new criminal charge, accused of "financing extremist activity" for supporting political prisoners through money transfers.
On December 13, 2025, she was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Elena has been convicted multiple times on politically motivated charges, including "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko" through comments on Telegram channels.
Her first trial took place in December 2022 for "insulting a government official," the outcome of which is unknown. In March 2023, she was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility and a large fine for a comment with an emoji addressed to police captain Ruslan Kutsko.
In April 2024, a new criminal case was heard against Elena under the articles "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko," the verdict for which is also unknown.
In October 2024, she was convicted of "inciting hatred or discord" for comments about Lukashenko, security forces, and participants in the war in Ukraine, and sentenced to imprisonment.
Released in autumn 2025 .