Persecuted for political reasonsForced emigration

Tatstsiana Yauhenyeuna Turavets

According to the indictment, on the night of February 9-10, 2021, Tatyana obstructed the lawful activities of police officers, namely, a search of her home. According to the officers, during her arrest, Tatyana bit the finger of one of the officers, bit through the glove of another, and kicked a third officer in the head. They also claimed that the woman called them "bandits," "fascists," and "punishers."

In May 2021, Tatyana was found guilty of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and sentenced to a restricted sentence in an open correctional facility.

Left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.

In January 2025, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment with serving the sentence in a penal colony.

Sentences

Trial outcome 28.05.2021
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 24.01.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Nikita Yuryevich Romanovsky
Nikita Yuryevich Romanovsky
State prosecutors19 september 1996
Place:
court of Vitebsk region
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
28.05.2021
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Natalia Mikhailovna Tretyakov
Natalia Mikhailovna Tretyakov
Judges17 october 2026
Place:
court of Vitebsk region
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
28.05.2021
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Michael Nikolaevich Zubenya
Michael Nikolaevich Zubenya
Judges10 may 1979
Place:
court of Vitebsk region
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
24.01.2025
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Tatstsiana Yauhenyeuna Turavets
Hometown:
Vitebsk
Birthday:
31.01.1971
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Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 28.05.2021

    Trial outcome 28.05.2021

    3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, court of Vitebsk region

  3. 28.05.2021

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  4. ~06.06.2021

    Status change

    Forced emigration

  5. 2025
  6. 24.01.2025

    Regime change trial 24.01.2025

    unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia), court of Vitebsk region