In January, Mikita Jemialjanau received another year of his “term” under Article 411 (“malicious disobedience to the demands of the prison administration”). Mikita was detained in 2019 for a series of solidarity actions with the anarchist Dmitry Polienko, who was detained at that time. In 2020, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison, the […]
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The main “novelty” of the past year was mass repressions against relatives of serving and released political prisoners. On January 23, mass searches and detentions of relatives took place in Belarus, and phones were taken away from the detainees for inspection. The articles under which the detentions and searches are carried out are “Financing of
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Aleksandr Frantskevich was transferred to a different penal colone after his trial for “infringement of prison administration’s requests”. He was transferred there at the beginning of October. As a result of the trial, a year was added to his 17-year sentence. Write Aleksandr a letter On 26th of October the court rejected Sergey Romanov’s appeal
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On 25 August, Siarhei Piatrukhin, a former political prisoner from Belarus, published a video on his YouTube channel. In the video, he spoke about political prisoners held in Correctional Facility No. 3 who cooperate with the prison administration. They often report on other prisoners and receive preferential treatment, such as extra visits, care packages and
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Antifascist from Mozyr Kristina Cherenkova was detained on March 23, 2022 together with her husband. Later the girl was accused of inciting social hatred for unflattering remarks in her personal Instagram account on Belarusian cops and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison. Having served her sentence Christina was released on April 11, 2024. We talked
