Natalia Mikulich has 5,000 followers on Facebook and TikTok. For over five years, she has been waging a persistent fight against pedophiles and security forces, who, in her opinion, cover for pedophiles. And in Belarus-2024, three criminal cases were opened against her.
Before the 2020 presidential elections, she reposted independent media (for example, Belsat) several times, but after August 16, 2020, she no longer did so.
On February 14, 2024, Natalia and her husband Sergei went to see the Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov, who came to Volozhin. This gave her great hope, as he ordered a re-examination of the criminal case materials. But two months later, the woman disappeared from all social networks.
Trial outcome 11.09.2024: compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
Human rights activists are aware of several facts of administrative prosecution of Nelly Alferova. The woman spoke about some of them in one of her video messages to Lukashenko and senior government officials in 2021; the details of others were clarified in the courts.
In 2020, the Polotsk resident was an observer in the presidential elections. At that time, the security forces already had special records of her.
At the end of 2021, the woman decided to leave Belarus with her son. In the videos, she talked about the problems she had to face in emigration. The host of the program on the pro-government TV channel "Zvyazda" thanked Alferova for her sincerity and invited her to return home as soon as possible. Belarusian emigrant acquaintances offered the woman both practical and financial help. But she refused and at the same time “looked depressed, broken.” The woman indeed soon returned to Belarus.
At the end of 2023, texts criticizing the current Belarusian authorities periodically appeared on the pages of Nelly Alferova. And at the same time, the woman wrote that she was being secretly stalked, that she found hidden video cameras in her apartment...
Also on the Polotsk resident’s social networks, you can see many reposts from Internet resources recognized as “extremist.” Probably the police noticed this and detained Nellie.
Trial outcome 18.06.2024:
Compulsory security and treatment measures applied
In 2019, the man became the city chess champion, and also won the quick tournament in Osipovichi. On July 19, 2023, the court sent Yarotsky for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
According to the case materials, in 2020-2021, Sergei publicly insulted Lukashenko A.G. in various social networks. As noted in the press release of the prosecutor's office, a forensic psychological and psychiatric examination established a certain mental disorder in the man, because of which he could not «realize the public danger of his actions» (that is, writing Internet comments about Lukashenko).
Trial outcome 02.02.2023:
Forced treatment in a psychiatric hospital with routine supervision
On June 28, 2024, in the Leninsky District Court of Minsk, Judge Marina Klimchuk will make a decision “On changing compulsory security and treatment measures.”
According to the investigation, on the evening of March 26, 2021, he decided to demonstrate his insulting and blasphemous attitude to the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus – he tore it from the facades of the buildings of the state cultural institution «Ivyevsky Center of Culture and Leisure» and the institution «Editorial Office of the newspaper «Ivyevsky Krai».
Trial outcome:
Forced treatment with isolation in a psychiatric hospital.
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