Viktar Mikalayevich Pikus
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Viktar Mikalayevich Pikus
Investigator for particularly important cases and public safety matters, Major, Investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus for the Gomel Region.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens.
In October 2021, he interrogated political prisoners in Penal Colony No. 4, including Polina Sharenda-Panasyuk and Alina Muratova. One of the questions was about the funding of the Viasna human rights center. He also handled the criminal case against political prisoner Tatyana Kanevskaya.
Investigator for particularly important cases and public safety matters, Major, Investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus for the Gomel Region.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens.
In October 2021, he interrogated political prisoners in Penal Colony No. 4, including Polina Sharenda-Panasyuk and Alina Muratova. One of the questions was about the funding of the Viasna human rights center. He also handled the criminal case against political prisoner Tatyana Kanevskaya.
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Alina was convicted for performances with mannequins in the form of police officers with the inscription "OMON". Before her arrest in the courtroom, she had been under house arrest since January 2021.
She was released in February 2022, having fully served her sentence.
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The social activist was detained on January 3, 2021, at her home after security forces broke down the door, conducted a search, and seized some of her belongings. Polina was convicted of "threatening to use violence against an internal affairs officer" and "insulting a government official." She refused to testify either during the investigation or in court.
In April 2022, Polina's sentence was extended on charges of "disobeying the demands of the prison administration," and in October 2023, she was convicted again under the same article. Polina is the first female political prisoner in Belarus to be convicted under this article. The article is used against prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, often for alleged violations.
The political prisoner is systematically subjected to psychological pressure and physical violence; she has been repeatedly placed in solitary confinement, punishment cells and punishment cells.
The BNR Rada awarded Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk the Order of the Pursuit.
In March 2024, a propaganda story about Polina accidentally showed a yellow tag indicating the end date of her imprisonment: May 21. However, she was not released on that day, and she was charged for the third time with “disobeying the prison administration,” for which she was convicted again in October 2024.
She was released on February 1, 2025, having fully served her sentence (4 consecutive terms).
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A well-known activist and confidant of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in Gomel, Tatyana has been campaigning for changes to anti-drug legislation for several years as part of the "Mothers 328 Movement" initiative. On August 6, 2020, she was detained in her home, accused of "mass riots" and plans to "seize buildings."
In January 2022, it became known that Tatyana had been transferred to prison regime.
According to human rights activists, she is denied visitation rights and is allowed to receive only one small parcel per year. Letters from Tatyana arrive extremely rarely. Furthermore, she has developed spinal problems.
She was released in February 2025.