Department of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Head of the Correctional Process Department. Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service. Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Elena Leonidovna Drozdova is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. She treated women in Penal Colony No. 4 with bias, humiliated them, exerted psychological pressure on political prisoners, and threatened to send them to solitary confinement. She denied political prisoners access to lawyers, and if lawyers persisted, she ordered penalties imposed on the prisoners, resulting in their placement in solitary confinement. Under her instructions, junior staff found excuses to deny political prisoners short-term visits, citing cleaning or a waiting list.
Department of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Head of the Correctional Process Department. Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service. Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Elena Leonidovna Drozdova is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. She treated women in Penal Colony No. 4 with bias, humiliated them, exerted psychological pressure on political prisoners, and threatened to send them to solitary confinement. She denied political prisoners access to lawyers, and if lawyers persisted, she ordered penalties imposed on the prisoners, resulting in their placement in solitary confinement. Under her instructions, junior staff found excuses to deny political prisoners short-term visits, citing cleaning or a waiting list.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistic Disciplines, Belarusian State Agricultural Academy.
She has been involved in scientific and methodological work in the field of teaching Russian as a foreign language and has more than 85 publications in domestic and foreign journals.
Presumably convicted in the "Yard Chat Case".
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
For many years, she worked as a professional makeup artist, make-up artist, and prop maker. She created wedding looks and saw clients at a local beauty salon. She also participated in the opening of the Le Grand art studio.
Natalia Chubovskaya is a well-known figure in the city on the Neman River. She has over 9,000 followers on Instagram, a large clientele, and her own salon.
Trial outcome 24.04.2026
5 years 5 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
8 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 1000 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Tatyana graduated fromthe MinskRadiotechnicalInstitute(nowBSUIR) and has an adult daughter and son.She enjoysspendingtime ather dacha,gardening, and hikingin the forest, and she travelsthroughout Belarus.
Tatyana was tried in the Minsk City Court under two articles of the Criminal Code: Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code (calls for sanctions and other actions aimed at causing harm to Belarus) and Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (assistance to extremist activity). Under these articles, she could only have been sentenced to a prison colony. The verdict came into force in early May.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In December 2024, pro-government media posted an audio recording of Olga, who is accused of participating in the "White Wings of Baranovichi" chat. When the KGB declared the "White Wings of Baranovichi" chat - a very small and long-inactive district chat - an extremist group, Olga was named among the participants. Olga was contacted through an unprotected account. It was linked to the girl's own number. Most likely, Olga was held in a pre-trial detention center before the trial.
Olga plays drums and was a drummer in amateur music groups as a student. She and her husband enjoy traveling.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Anna graduated from the Faculty of Mass Sports at the Belarusian State University of Physical Education in 2019. She worked as a coach and teacher at the Burevestnik Olympic Reserve School in Minsk.
In 2014, Anna competed in the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games, where she jumped 3.80 m and placed fourth overall. For this achievement, she received a scholarship from the National Olympic Committee.
She was likely detained in connection with the "Gayun case." On the "list of extremists" maintained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, her status is listed as "serving a sentence." This means she was sentenced to either a penal colony with a referral or a prison colony.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture. Artist. Expressionism. Technique: impasto painting. Her works are in private collections in America, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Luxembourg, Finland, Italy, and the Larus Gallery (USA). She has had three solo exhibitions. Member of the Master-Peacemaker Artists' Union.
Presumably detained for assisting political prisoners.
It has become known that a woman was diagnosed with cancer in Gomel Penal Colony No. 4. She currently spends most of her time in the prison's medical unit. It is unknown whether she is receiving adequate medical care.
Trial outcome 28.11.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Dmitry and Olga Kapuzy, 36, were detained on January 16, 2024. The couple hails from the Drogichin district and lived near the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. Following their detention, state television aired a propaganda video titled "Purge. The Fight Against Saboteurs and Agents of Ukrainian Special Services in Belarus," accusing them of smuggling goods from Ukraine. A total of 12 people were detained at the time. According to the propaganda, the couple allegedly worked for Ukrainian special services. It was claimed that the residents of the Drogichin district assisted the Security Service of Ukraine by seizing explosives and making caches in Belarus.
Trial outcome date unknown
21 year of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 24.03.2026
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Margarita, Tina Palynskaya's eldest daughter, was detained along with her mother at the end of May 2025. Both are in custody on criminal charges.
The details of the charges have not been officially disclosed. Based on circumstantial evidence, there is an assumption that the case may be connected with the KGB's decision to recognize the "Belarusian Analytical Workshop" of Professor Andrei Vardomatsky as an extremist organization. This organization conducted sociological surveys among Belarusian citizens. At the moment, there is no confirmation that Tina or her daughter actually participated in the BAM research. But even if such participation had taken place, it would not have violated the law: at the time of possible contact with the workshop, it had not yet been recognized as an extremist organization.
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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