Zhanna Vesialauna Yaskuld
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- Viasna since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by the Viasna Human Rights Centre

The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Previously, he served as the head of the operations department. Since August 2024, he has served as deputy head of Penal Colony No. 4. Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Nikita Petrovich Alekhine is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions, during which thousands of peaceful protesters, several hundred journalists, human rights defenders, and activists were detained and subjected to violence. He assumed the position of head of the operations department at Penal Colony No. 4 upon the arrival of the first political prisoners. He initiated the creation of harsh conditions for them, the practice of inciting other prisoners, the use of solitary confinement, and the transfer of Hershe and Kanevskaya to prison conditions. In August 2024, he became the deputy head of the colony for security and operations and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He actively collaborated with GUBOPiK officers in pressuring Maria Kolesnikova (he held her in solitary confinement for 18 months). He initiated the placement of human rights activist Nasta Loiko in a PKT. He coerced political prisoners into collaborating. He falsified documents, including medical ones, to deprive them of access to medical care. Alekhine tortured Polina Sergeyevna Sharendo-Panasyuk, Tatyana Vasilyevna Kanevskaya, Viktoria Aleksandrovna Kulsha, and other women. He held Anna Viktorovna Vishnyak in a solitary confinement cell with a broken window in December, without warm clothing.
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