Elena Petrovna Lukomskaya
The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Deputy Head of Correctional Procedure. Complicit in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Involved in politically motivated repression. Elena Petrovna Lukomskaya coerced political prisoners into writing petitions for pardon. If they refused, she ordered Penal Colony No. 4 staff to exert psychological pressure on them. Under any circumstances, she did everything possible to send political prisoners to solitary confinement or deprive them of visits and packages. She placed them on preventive watch lists, including repeat ones, for trumped-up reasons.
The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Deputy Head of Correctional Procedure. Complicit in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Involved in politically motivated repression. Elena Petrovna Lukomskaya coerced political prisoners into writing petitions for pardon. If they refused, she ordered Penal Colony No. 4 staff to exert psychological pressure on them. Under any circumstances, she did everything possible to send political prisoners to solitary confinement or deprive them of visits and packages. She placed them on preventive watch lists, including repeat ones, for trumped-up reasons.
List of repressed
She was detained on September 20 in a criminal case for a performance at the city cemetery, when a group of young people placed a portrait of Lukashenka on the grave and opened champagne. After the temporary detention facility, she was immediately transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
| 17.06.2022 | According to friends, the courts of appeal are expected no earlier than August. |
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.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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- Retirees
was detained on September 29, 2021 in Miory in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment. In mid-September 2022, she was transferred to house arrest.
At first it was reported that the political prisoner was accused under Articles 369 and 130 of the Criminal Code, but in the end she was tried for insulting Lukashenko (Article 368 of the Criminal Code) and a government official (Article 369 of the Criminal Code).
The political prisoner was handcuffed in the courtroom. She has about 4 months left in prison.
02.05.2023 released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.
In October 2024, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against the former political prisoner. She is accused under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). This became known from a report of incidents published in the local district newspaper.
| 22.02.2022 | 02/10/22 received a postcard with the return address Vitebsk SIZO 2 Kam.20 |
She was detained on September 30, 2021 in Minsk in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
She was released in September 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
was detained on September 29, 2021 in Minsk in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
2.5 years in prison
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She was detained on September 29, 2021 in Minsk in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
On January 5, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 21.10.2022 | 20/10/2022: Melanie Vogel, member of French Senate, became Natalia's godmother via Libereco https://www.libereco.org/en/pinchuk-berasnieu-nikitsina/ |
| 04.06.2022 | Jun 2nd, 2022: Special Rapporter for Belarus will forward Natalia's case to the WGAD, Working Group of Arbitrary Detention. |
1 year 10 months in prison
was detained on September 29, 2021 in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
09.19.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
was detained on September 7, 2021 in a criminal case on insulting the state flag. She, as well as two other men, were accused of tearing down the state flag on one of the streets of Homel. Released on June 23, 2022 after the expiration of her sentence.
1 year in prison .
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- Foreign citizens
Russian citizen. Arrested on May 28, 2021 for a tweet written on May 23. The tweet led to a publication in LiveJournal with a reprint of the BBC Russian Service material about the incident with the Ryanair plane (on which Roman Protasevich was flying). Vikholm added her own title to the reprint: "Lukashenko's next crime: an act of state air piracy" , and the phrase "act of state air piracy" was cited in the text of the BBC as a reaction of the Greek Foreign Ministry.
On September 1, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence and immediately deported to the Russian Federation without the right to enter the Republic of Belarus for 10 years.
| 09.09.2021 | 09/16/2021 court will be held |
On September 27, 2020, she was detained and convicted under an administrative charge. After the trial, she had a seizure and was admitted to a mental hospital. Larisa has a depressive-anxious state with claustrophobia syndrome. On August 6, 2021, they came to her place of work, conducted a search and, after interrogation, placed her in a temporary detention facility for three days. On August 9, charges were brought under Art. 364 for the fact that she “took P.P. Petrov by the hand with brute physical force, thereby moving him from his place and did not allow him to work, and third parties committed violence against I.I. Ivanov.”
She was released in May 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years in prison .
According to the prosecution, on May 27, 2021, the police came to Natalia's house. There, a woman "publicly insulted" Lukashenka with the words "we have a fucking state" and "a fucking president", which, according to the state prosecution, committed a crime under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code. An hour after uttering these words, the investigators were already conducting an inspection in the woman's apartment. During it, according to the prosecution, "wishing to express her superiority and permissiveness," Turova tore up the protocol. So the woman "damaged an official document" (part 1 of article 377 of the Criminal Code). She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
1 year and 1 month in prison .
- Associations
- Journalists
director of the news agency BelaPAN. On the morning of August 18, 2021, they came to her with a search. Then they took me to the agency's office for a search, and then for interrogation. Searches also took place at the homes of other BelaPAN journalists.
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- Activists
A well-known activist on Facebook, a supporter of Viktor Babariko, is charged with Article 368 of the Criminal Code (“Insulting the President”). The Mogilev resident faces up to four years in prison.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
| 27.09.2021 | Detained for 367 h2 registered prone to extremism |
3 years in a general regime colony
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vocalist of the band IRDORATH. Nadezhda was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of her birthday along with other musicians and guests of the holiday. Some of the people over the next two days were convicted on administrative cases of disobedience to the police.
On April 21, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 23.10.2021 | The period of detention was extended for another month for all detainees (6 people) in the case of the Irdorath group. |
2 years in a colony under general regime conditions
- Associations
was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of the birthday of IRDORATH vocalist Nadezhda Kalach along with musicians and other participants of the holiday.
On October 11, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 15.04.2022 | 10.04 Yuliya was transferred from PK-4 to Antoshkina and Gomel. |
