Department of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Detachment Head.
Since 2023/2024 — employee of Penal Colony No. 24.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens.
Olga Viktorovna Zyuzina (Kholyavko) is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression.
Guilty of abusing political prisoners on the grounds of Penal Colony No. 4. She filed reports on trumped-up grounds and prevented them from gathering in the same area. She insulted and humiliated them, especially if she saw a smile or heard laughter. She demanded confessions for participating in protests. She baselessly accused them of substance abuse.
She received a promotion thanks to her cruel treatment of political prisoners.
Department of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Detachment Head.
Since 2023/2024 — employee of Penal Colony No. 24.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens.
Olga Viktorovna Zyuzina (Kholyavko) is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression.
Guilty of abusing political prisoners on the grounds of Penal Colony No. 4. She filed reports on trumped-up grounds and prevented them from gathering in the same area. She insulted and humiliated them, especially if she saw a smile or heard laughter. She demanded confessions for participating in protests. She baselessly accused them of substance abuse.
She received a promotion thanks to her cruel treatment of political prisoners.
Alla was accused of leaving comments in a telegram for two years - from October 2020 to September 2022. They allegedly contained insults to Lukashenko and police officers and “obscene language and expressed a negative assessment of government officials.” Zueva admitted guilt.
Alla has a blood cancer; the court did not take this into account when passing the verdict.
29.09.2023
Имеются проблемы со здоровьем.
Trial outcome 29.09.2023:
2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The Minsk resident was accused of participating in protests in 2020 (8 episodes), going out onto the roadway and blocking public transport. She indicated a partial admission of guilt, but did not actually admit guilt and did not recant her testimony. The woman reported that she took part in the protests as a third-party observer, not as a participant. And she went out onto the roadway solely for the purpose of taking photographs, Inna said in court.
Inna Bogdanova has a higher education and worked as a legal adviser at the territorial center for social services. She was held in custody before the trial.
She wasreleasedon August 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
Trial outcome 19.09.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Natalia was convicted in August 2023 in a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing group actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "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 31.08.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
January 2023 security officials drew attention to the pages of the pensioner in social networks: there they found subscriptions to “extremist” information resources, reposts from them, as well as images of white-red-white flags and “chase”, caricatures of Lukashenko and Putin reprinted from various sources. The woman's home was searched and her mobile phone was confiscated.
Trial outcome 30.08.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Svetlana was first convicted under an administrative article for “distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities,” after which a criminal case was opened against her for insulting A.G. Lukashenko.
According to the materials of the prosecution in the criminal case, Svetlana on her page in Odnoklassniki allegedly “placed a publication and video with a screensaver containing deliberately false information about Alexander Lukashenko, associated with accusing him of committing especially serious crimes, such as “murder”, “treason” state”, which do not correspond to reality and discredit its authority in the eyes of the public."
According to human rights activists, she will be released in early spring 2024 after fully serving her sentence.
Trial outcome 17.08.2023:
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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.
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.
Trial outcome 31.07.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Convicted for reposting a picture showing a tombstone with a portrait of Lukashenko. For such "willfulness", Alexandra was found guilty of "insulting Lukashenko". The sentence was handed down by Judge Alesya Parfenenko. Alexandra will serve her sentence in a general regime.
During the trial, the defendant said that she found the text under the aforementioned picture funny, so she gave it a "like" and reposted it.
The sentence has come into force.
She was released in December 2023, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
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