Alena Dzmitryyeuna Pyrkh
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Alena Dzmitryyeuna Pyrkh
Penal Colony No. 4, Department of Correctional Institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Employee of the penal department. Assistant to the duty assistant to the warden of the penal colony.
Elena Dmitrievna Pyrkh participated in the persecution of political prisoners. All provocations by the penal institution administration took place under her supervision. She was present during all searches of the political prisoners' cells, displaying aggression, threatening, and insulting female prisoners.
Prohibited items, usually pills or needles, were planted in the cells of women who, in the administration's opinion, needed punishment, and Pyrkh then "found" them. She then took the prisoner to the penal department and filed a report.
Another form of psychological pressure was "fire safety drills," when Pyrkh would suddenly appear in the unit and demand that all prisoners "take out" their belongings in an organized manner within 10 minutes. If the prisoners failed to complete this task within the allotted time, the process would begin again.
Pyrkh would shout, insult, and humiliate the prisoners. If she didn't like something, she would force the entire unit to stand in the sun, rain, or cold for several hours, during which time they would be required to read the prison rules.
She often filed reports on political prisoners and demanded stricter conditions for them at commission meetings, including insisting on solitary confinement in place of a reprimand, deprivation of visits, parcel delivery, and so on at punishment commissions.
These actions directly indicate complicity with the Lukashenko regime's repressive policies against those who do not support the government and violate prisoners' rights to humane treatment.
Penal Colony No. 4, Department of Correctional Institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Employee of the penal department. Assistant to the duty assistant to the warden of the penal colony.
Elena Dmitrievna Pyrkh participated in the persecution of political prisoners. All provocations by the penal institution administration took place under her supervision. She was present during all searches of the political prisoners' cells, displaying aggression, threatening, and insulting female prisoners.
Prohibited items, usually pills or needles, were planted in the cells of women who, in the administration's opinion, needed punishment, and Pyrkh then "found" them. She then took the prisoner to the penal department and filed a report.
Another form of psychological pressure was "fire safety drills," when Pyrkh would suddenly appear in the unit and demand that all prisoners "take out" their belongings in an organized manner within 10 minutes. If the prisoners failed to complete this task within the allotted time, the process would begin again.
Pyrkh would shout, insult, and humiliate the prisoners. If she didn't like something, she would force the entire unit to stand in the sun, rain, or cold for several hours, during which time they would be required to read the prison rules.
She often filed reports on political prisoners and demanded stricter conditions for them at commission meetings, including insisting on solitary confinement in place of a reprimand, deprivation of visits, parcel delivery, and so on at punishment commissions.
These actions directly indicate complicity with the Lukashenko regime's repressive policies against those who do not support the government and violate prisoners' rights to humane treatment.
List of repressed
Convicted for comments on the BGM telegram channel.
In March 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
- IT staff
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
- IT staff
Epam employee.
Ekaterina returned from Lithuania, where she left in February 2022.
She was detained along with her sister Yulia Glinskaya in Minsk, where Ekaterina returned to get the cat. The detention was carried out by the GUBOPik; the girls were captured as they walked to their car. The apartment was then searched.
She was released on May 2, 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Galina was accused of having arrived from Minsk to Mogilev on February 18, 2022, where she pasted texts and images with obviously unreliable evidence at public transport stops, humiliating the honor and dignity of the head of state, coupled with an accusation of a particularly serious crime.
25.05.2024, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Factory workers
- Associations
- Factory workers
Operator at "BOBRUISCTRICOTAZH". Accused of sabotaging the railway near Bobruisk stations, as well as setting fire to the shooting range of military unit 5527.
Before the trial, she was under recognizance not to leave.
On October 25, 2022, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists, she should be released in July 2024.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the indictment, Anna posted offensive comments about Lukashenko A.G. and other government officials and law enforcement officials in several Telegram channels throughout 2021. On July 10, 2023, Anna will be tried again under the article for "insult".
In June 2023, Kondratenko was returned from the Gomel women's penal colony IK-4 to the Mogilev prison to stand trial for a second criminal case. This time, she was charged with a comment on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" regarding Andrei Bagrayonok, a traffic police inspector of the Svetlogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs. The post about him appeared on September 27, 2021, and Kondratenko left a comment on September 28.
Anna's second sentence was 1 year of imprisonment and a fine of 50 basic units.
By absorbing a less severe punishment with a more severe one, Kondratenko was left with the same term of 3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. In both criminal cases, the woman now owes the state more than 5 thousand Belarusian rubles.
The woman died six months after her release from cancer, which she had been diagnosed with in the colony in Gomel. According to former political prisoners , Anna did not receive any parcels or packages. "Her mother is elderly, retired, it was hard for her, so we thought about how to help her ourselves." Despite her serious illness, Kondratenko was not released early. Moreover, the woman was taken from the colony to a pretrial detention center again and tried again under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
She was convicted of insulting Lukashenko.
The court also decided to send the woman to compulsory treatment for alcoholism.
According to human rights activists, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
After two administrative arrests, she was not released, but was re-detained in a criminal case under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
In September 2023, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
1, 5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained for participating in protests.
On March 26, 2024, she was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of imprisonment.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
- Associations
- Parents of minors
She was detained in the morning when she was going to go to work with her husband. Accused of participating in protests. The trial was held behind closed doors.
The family has three children.
Katerina is accused of writing comments insulting representatives of the authorities in telegram channels. She was detained on June 23, 2022.
It is known that in August 2022, a trial in the case of a political prisoner took place.
- Associations
- Journalists
- Associations
- Journalists
She is a Journalist, editor-in-chief ABW.by.
She was detained for participating in protest actions 2020.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was detained along with her husband for participating in protests in 2020. Released September 1, 2023.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
- Associations
- Associations
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.
Olga Novikova and her husband Viktor were sentenced to imprisonment for participating in protests in 2020 (Article 342 of the Criminal Code). It is noteworthy that her 35-year-old husband Viktor Novikov was also released on pardon, but on July 3.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.