The woman will likely be tried for supporting political prisoners.
Most likely, we are talking about a 49-year-old woman from Soligorsk. The last "like" on Odnoklassniki was in early January, just before the massive KGB raid.
Candidate of Historical Sciences, adjunct of the Historical Institute of the University of Wroclaw. Melnikov specialized in military history and the history of the period of Western Belarus as part of Poland (1921-1939). He published a dozen and a half books on the topic of Western Belarus. In 2020, he was awarded the L. Sapieha Prize for the preservation of the historical heritage of Belarus.
It is known for sure that he was arrested and is being held in a pre-trial detention facility.
Melnikov's last activity on Instagram dates back to January 21, 2024.
Irina Pogadaeva is 54 years old. She is from Brest. She worked at a local library as a bibliographer. Judging by social networks, she has two children.
At the end of January 2024, when she was tried for “distributing extremist materials.” At the end of 2023, she was included in the “extremist formation.” This was recognized by the Facebook community “Letters of Solidarity Belarus 2020”, in which people exchanged letters from political prisoners and also discussed helping prisoners.
In total, the case involves more than thirty episodes in which a woman sent money to political prisoners in pre-trial detention centers in Minsk, Gomel and other cities of the country. Basically, we are talking about amounts of 4-5 rubles. In just less than a year and a half (from August 2021 to December 2022), Irina sent 188 rubles. This was enough to initiate a criminal case and arrest in May 2024.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
worked as the chief bibliographer of the research department of book science of the National Library of Belarus until November 2021. Then she went into IT.
The first time she was detained by the KGB at the end of January 2024 (during the mass detentions of relatives and friends of political prisoners) for writing letters and transferring money to the accounts of political prisoners in the pre-trial detention center of prison No. 1. Then a criminal case was opened against her under Art. 361-2 (financing extremist activities), but the woman was not taken into custody.
During the search, equipment and money were confiscated from her. After examining the technique, unwanted comments were allegedly discovered on social networks, and an examination was then carried out on them. After receiving the results of the examination, on April 20, 2024, Victoria was re-detained and placed in a temporary detention facility, and subsequently in a pre-trial detention center.
She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.
Natalia Davydulina is 47 years old and is from Zhlobin. It is known from Natalia's social networks that she and her husband have a large family - five children, one of whom is still in elementary school.
One of Natalia's sons, Denis Davydulin, is a former political prisoner. He was detained in March 2021 and sentenced to a year and a half in prison for "going out onto the roadway and actively disobeying police officers" on the night of August 10.
She has never given media interviews. Court schedules show that she was tried on January 24, 2024, for “dissemination of extremist materials.” She was likely detained during a raid on those in solidarity with political prisoners.
The trial will begin on August 23 in the Gomel Regional Court. Thus, most likely, Natalia is accused of some kind of assistance to other prisoners. It is known that during the January raid, mainly those who helped others were left behind bars - they made transfers and parcels to pretrial detention centers and colonies, even for very small amounts.
Yulia is accused of financing extremist activities as a result of large-scale arrests during the persecution by the authorities for supporting political prisoners and their families with the social food assistance project INeedHelpBy.
Yulia is the sister of Nikolai Korobko’s wife, mother of Pavel Kravtsov .
Alena is accused of financing extremist activities as a result of large-scale arrests during the persecution by the authorities for supporting political prisoners and their families with the social food assistance project INeedHelpBy.
Mother of former political prisoner Marina Glazova.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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