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
2.5 years in prison .
- Associations
- Activists
Anna was arrested in October 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened following a protest on September 13, 2020, in Brest, where people were singing and dancing in circles and were attacked with a water cannon. She was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
Anna was released in February 2023, having fully served her sentence.
Detained on September 20 in a criminal case on the creation of an extremist formation (telegram chat). 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. |
| 17.06.2022 | According to friends, the courts of appeal are expected no earlier than August. |
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.
- Associations
- 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
- Associations
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 .
Olga was arrested in September 2021 for painting over 80 bales of haylage, after which a criminal case was opened against her for malicious hooliganism. She was remanded in custody pending trial and placed in a temporary detention facility.
In January 2022, Olga was charged with "gross violation of public order, expressed in an attempt to distract drivers and disrupt traffic" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in May 2022, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Elena was arrested in September 2021 for painting over 80 bales of haylage, after which a criminal case was opened against her for malicious hooliganism. She was remanded in custody pending trial and placed in a temporary detention facility.
In January 2022, Elena was charged with "gross violation of public order, expressed in an attempt to distract drivers and disrupt traffic" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in May 2022, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.
After her release, pressure continued to be exerted on Elena; in June 2022, she was detained by KGB officers. She was subsequently forced to leave Belarus.
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
Irina, a Russian citizen, was arrested on May 28, 2021, in Brest and convicted in September of that year for a tweet published on May 23. It contained a link to a LiveJournal post reprinting a BBC Russian Service report on the incident with the Ryanair flight carrying Roman Protasevich. She added her own headline to the reprint: "Lukashenko's latest crime: an act of state aviation piracy." The expression "an act of state aviation piracy" was used in the BBC text as a quote from the Greek Foreign Ministry's response.
On September 1, 2022, she was released after serving her sentence and immediately deported to Russia with a 10-year ban on entering Belarus.
Larisa was first arrested on September 27, 2020, and convicted of an administrative offense. After the trial, she suffered a seizure and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Larisa suffers from depressive anxiety disorder and claustrophobia.
On August 6, 2021, security forces came to her workplace, conducted a search, and after interrogation, placed her in a temporary detention facility for three days. After this period, she was charged with violence or threat of violence against police officers for participating in a Sunday march on September 27, 2020, in Gomel, during which security forces used tear gas and stun grenades. According to the prosecution, Larisa "used brute force to grab a security officer by the arm, move him, and thereby obstruct his work."
In December 2021, Larisa was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in May 2023, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.
