Alesya Sergeenko has been in a pre-trial detention center since the end of January as part of a criminal case (presumably she is charged with “promoting extremism”). 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.
It is also known that on February 21, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Mogilev considered the case under Decree No. 7 “On foreign gratuitous assistance” against Alesya. “Decree No. 7” is used in Belarus to judge those people against whom a mass raid was carried out at the end of January 2024. Then the KGB officers tried to find out who received food aid from abroad as part of the activities of the INeedHelp organization, recognized as a so-called “extremist formation.”
Alesya Sergeenko has two children - 3 and 16 years old. Her husband, Maxim Sergeenko, is a political prisoner who in April 2021 received a sentence of 3 years in prison from the Kruglyansky District Court.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
She was detained on January 23, 2024 during a massive raid by security forces on relatives of political prisoners and people who helped them.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
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 expressed solidarity with the political prisoner.
Mother of political prisoner blogger Olga Tokarczuk (was released in June 2022 after serving her sentence). 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.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
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 expressed solidarity with the political prisoner.
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.
Detained for financing extremist activities, namely helping political prisoners and their families.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
Elena Toporkova is 54 years old. She graduated from the Belarusian State Polytechnical Academy (now BNTU).
Elena was likely detained during a raid on those in solidarity with political prisoners that took place at the end of January 2024.
People caught in the raid on those in solidarity with political prisoners, which took place from January 23 to 24, say that the number of those who were subject to criminal cases may be much higher than human rights activists know. Completely non-public people simply made transfers or sent parcels to political prisoners from their own funds.
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.
5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
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 .
4 years of restriction of freedom without direction
5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
Gomel resident Elena Totskaya attended many trials of opponents of the authorities of the Republic of Belarus. She previously worked in public service, but in 2020 she became an activist and volunteer.
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.
4.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
Catholic believer. Former journalist for catholic.by. Oksana Yuchkovich comes from the parish in Parafyanovo. The believer is especially famous among Catholics in Minsk, where she organized numerous events and activities.
Oksana also worked in Catholic journalism - first at the Pro Christo publishing house, then at the official national Catholic portal catholic.by. She wrote a lot about people and their interesting destinies. During the visit of the Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Paralin, to Belarus in 2015, Oksana interviewed him on behalf of the portal.
The believer gave a lot of her strength and energy to helping other people, those who needed help. She worked at the Christian Social Center of the Good Samaritan Charitable Mission in Minsk.
Detained on January 23, 2024.
3 years restriction of freedom without referral to an open correctional facility
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