Yaroslav Igorevich Paremsky
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 18 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 61 days of administrative arrest were imposed, at least 2,107 rubles in fines (excluding those not devalued). In the fall of 2005, he imposed a fine of more than five million rubles on one of the local oppositionists. For organizing a youth seminar.
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 18 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 61 days of administrative arrest were imposed, at least 2,107 rubles in fines (excluding those not devalued). In the fall of 2005, he imposed a fine of more than five million rubles on one of the local oppositionists. For organizing a youth seminar.
List of repressed
- Associations
- Parents of minors
According to the prosecution, in the spring of 2022, Yuriy Zaretsky, at approximately 17:20, "being aware of being in a public place, opposing his personality to public interests and expressing demonstrative disrespect for society, with the aim of worsening the aesthetic perception of public property, applied a couple of inscriptions to the reinforced concrete fences of the Gomel civil engineering section with a black aerosol can." Zaretsky, questioned at the court hearing, fully admitted his guilt and said that he was outraged by what was happening in Ukraine, so he decided to express his attitude to the events and write on the concrete fence near the pedestrian crossing over the railway tracks on Kirov Street "P…. - …."
Convicted for the comment: «A man of little mind, apparently», — in relation to N.N. Karpenkov.
- Associations
- Teachers
Victoria Kostyuchenko worked as a mathematics teacher in schools, gymnasiums, college, and the Gomel Regional Institute for Education Development for over 30 years. She is the winner of the regional stage of the professional competition "Teacher of the Year 2009" and a super finalist of the national stage of this competition. She was formally repressed for a comment about the local police officer Artem Zhevnyak, who was offended by the opinion expressed about him by the teacher.
06/22/2022 left the Republic of Belarus.
- Associations
- Activists
- Retirees
Since 2020, Elena has been subjected to systematic politically motivated persecution: she has been detained and arrested 17 times under administrative law and fined a total of 173 basic units. Her home has been searched repeatedly.
In May 2021, Elena was convicted of "participating in group actions grossly violating public order" in a criminal case opened following a protest on September 13, 2020, in Brest, where participants were singing songs and dancing in circles when a water cannon was used against them. According to the prosecution, the protest disrupted public transportation. She was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to a correctional facility.
In September of that year, Elena was convicted again for "insulting Lukashenko." The combined sentence amounted to three years of house arrest.
In January 2022, she was arrested for "violating a sentence" and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. However, she was never released—she was transferred to a pretrial detention center as part of a new criminal case opened for slandering Lukashenko and discrediting the Republic of Belarus. In June, she was sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
In April 2023, Elena was convicted again under the article "malicious disobedience of the demands of the prison administration." This article is often applied to prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, for fictitious violations.
It is known that Elena is constantly subjected to physical and psychological pressure. She is regularly placed in solitary confinement and isolation cells, deprived of almost all packages, phone calls, and visits, and her grocery allowance has been reduced from three basic units to one.
In February 2025, Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk reported that Elena had been placed back in the punishment cell : "After several weeks in solitary confinement, she was transferred to the punishment cell. There's a 99% chance they'll trumped up Article 411 against her again."
On December 13, 2025, she was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
