Nikolay Nikolaevich Krupoderov
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 13 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 32 days of administrative arrest, at least 2025 rubles in fines, and at least 3 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed. He assigned political prisoner Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk, in addition to two years of imprisonment, another year in a colony. Polina is the mother of two minor sons, who was accused under a number of articles of the Criminal Code: Art. 364 (Violence against police officers), Art. 368 (insulting Lukashenko) and Art. 369 (insulting a government official), and then they opened a new criminal case for malicious disobedience to the prison administration (Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code). He handed down a sentence to Evgeniy Ragutsky, who was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to two years in prison in a general regime colony. The case was considered behind closed doors. Before the meeting, he was under house arrest for almost a year. Evgeniy has had a disease since childhood - rheumatoid arthritis. He sentenced deaf and mute Dmitry Zalomsky to 2 years in prison for insulting Lukashenko (Article 368 of the Criminal Code) and a representative of the authorities (Article 369 of the Criminal Code), calls for violence against a judge (Article 389 of the Criminal Code) in telegrams. The trial was closed, so the details of the case are unknown. Dmitry is recognized as a political prisoner. Decided to transfer political prisoner Natalya Khershe from the colony to a prison with more stringent conditions. The exact reasons for this decision are not known.
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 13 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 32 days of administrative arrest, at least 2025 rubles in fines, and at least 3 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed. He assigned political prisoner Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk, in addition to two years of imprisonment, another year in a colony. Polina is the mother of two minor sons, who was accused under a number of articles of the Criminal Code: Art. 364 (Violence against police officers), Art. 368 (insulting Lukashenko) and Art. 369 (insulting a government official), and then they opened a new criminal case for malicious disobedience to the prison administration (Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code). He handed down a sentence to Evgeniy Ragutsky, who was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to two years in prison in a general regime colony. The case was considered behind closed doors. Before the meeting, he was under house arrest for almost a year. Evgeniy has had a disease since childhood - rheumatoid arthritis. He sentenced deaf and mute Dmitry Zalomsky to 2 years in prison for insulting Lukashenko (Article 368 of the Criminal Code) and a representative of the authorities (Article 369 of the Criminal Code), calls for violence against a judge (Article 389 of the Criminal Code) in telegrams. The trial was closed, so the details of the case are unknown. Dmitry is recognized as a political prisoner. Decided to transfer political prisoner Natalya Khershe from the colony to a prison with more stringent conditions. The exact reasons for this decision are not known.
List of repressed
Yuri was convicted under the article “insulting a government official” and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type institution.
A court hearing on regime change took place in October 2024, the outcome is unknown.
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
- Parents of minors
Natalia, a citizen of Belarus and Switzerland, was detained on September 19, 2020, during the Women's March, a protest in Minsk. During her arrest, she tried to free herself and tore off the balaclava of a riot police officer. As a result, she was charged and convicted of "resisting a police officer."
In September 2021, the court changed Natalia's detention regime to prison.
She was released on February 18, 2022, thanks to diplomatic efforts by the Swiss authorities.
- Associations
- Activists
- Politicians
- Teachers
- Parents of minors
The social activist was detained on January 3, 2021, at her home after security forces broke down the door, conducted a search, and seized some of her belongings. Polina was convicted of "threatening to use violence against an internal affairs officer" and "insulting a government official." She refused to testify either during the investigation or in court.
In April 2022, Polina's sentence was extended on charges of "disobeying the demands of the prison administration," and in October 2023, she was convicted again under the same article. Polina is the first female political prisoner in Belarus to be convicted under this article. The article is used against prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, often for alleged violations.
The political prisoner is systematically subjected to psychological pressure and physical violence; she has been repeatedly placed in solitary confinement, punishment cells and punishment cells.
The BNR Rada awarded Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk the Order of the Pursuit.
In March 2024, a propaganda story about Polina accidentally showed a yellow tag indicating the end date of her imprisonment: May 21. However, she was not released on that day, and she was charged for the third time with “disobeying the prison administration,” for which she was convicted again in October 2024.
She was released on February 1, 2025, having fully served her sentence (4 consecutive terms).
