Elena Dmitrievna Pyrkh
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Elena Dmitrievna Pyrkh
Pyrkh Elena Dmitrievna participated in the persecution of political prisoners. All provocations by the administration of the correctional facility took place under her control. She was present at all searches in the cells of political prisoners, while displaying aggression, threatening and insulting female prisoners. Forbidden objects, usually pills or needles, were planted in the cells of women who, in the opinion of the administration, needed to be punished, which Pyrkh then "found". After that, she took the prisoner to the regime department and wrote a report. Another form of psychological pressure was "fire safety drills", when Pyrkh suddenly came to the detachment and demanded that all prisoners "take out" their things in an organized manner within 10 minutes. If the prisoners did not manage to complete this task within the specified time, everything started over again. Pyrkh shouted, insulted and humiliated the prisoners. If she didn't like something, she could make the entire unit stand in the sun, rain or cold for several hours, during which time people had to read the internal regulations. She often wrote reports on political prisoners, demanded that the regime for them be strengthened at commissions, including at commissions on penalties, insisted on placing them in a punishment cell instead of a reprimand, deprivation of a visit, a parcel, and so on. These actions directly indicate assistance to the repressive policy of the Lukashenko regime in relation to those who do not support the government and violate the rights of prisoners to humane treatment.
Pyrkh Elena Dmitrievna participated in the persecution of political prisoners. All provocations by the administration of the correctional facility took place under her control. She was present at all searches in the cells of political prisoners, while displaying aggression, threatening and insulting female prisoners. Forbidden objects, usually pills or needles, were planted in the cells of women who, in the opinion of the administration, needed to be punished, which Pyrkh then "found". After that, she took the prisoner to the regime department and wrote a report. Another form of psychological pressure was "fire safety drills", when Pyrkh suddenly came to the detachment and demanded that all prisoners "take out" their things in an organized manner within 10 minutes. If the prisoners did not manage to complete this task within the specified time, everything started over again. Pyrkh shouted, insulted and humiliated the prisoners. If she didn't like something, she could make the entire unit stand in the sun, rain or cold for several hours, during which time people had to read the internal regulations. She often wrote reports on political prisoners, demanded that the regime for them be strengthened at commissions, including at commissions on penalties, insisted on placing them in a punishment cell instead of a reprimand, deprivation of a visit, a parcel, and so on. These actions directly indicate assistance to the repressive policy of the Lukashenko regime in relation to those who do not support the government and violate the rights of prisoners to humane treatment.
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Natalia was accused of making a repost on her publication page with the personal data of an employee of the internal affairs bodies. The woman also posted a photo of the security officer with her own comment about the crimes committed by him. The court decided that the information in the comment was deliberately false and discredited the employee in the eyes of society.
According to human rights activists, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
In the fall of 2021, Maria was summoned for questioning by the KGB, after which she was arrested for comments left on social networks.
She was released in the spring of 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
05/20/2023 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
As it became known from the court ruling, Anastasia, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, moved from Belarus to Poland. While in a neighboring country, she tried to donate $16.71 from her Belarusian bank account via Internet banking to the Kalinovsky regiment, but the transaction did not go through.
Later, the political prisoner decided to return to Belarus, where she was detained. It should be noted that at the time of the transfer of funds by Anastasia, the Kalinovsky regiment was not recognized as an "extremist formation."
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Diana has a minor child with a disability.
According to the indictment, Smolyakov , Asmolovsky and Chernushina took an active part in the protest in Minsk on August 23, 2020. Members of the UCP grossly violated public order, did not respond to calls from police officers, disturbed the peace of citizens and obstructed the movement of public transport.
She was released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment.
The wife of the convicted blogger Igor Losik.
Cjnhelybrb law enforcement agencies came home to the Losik's at 8 a.m. Daria herself and her two year old daughter Polina were sleeping.
According to the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Daria is accused of facilitating extremist activities in the form of a conversation with the Belsat TV channel in the spring of 2022, despite the fact that the TV channel was recognized as an extremist formation in November 2021. Such an interview, according to the authors of the post, may entail criminal liability under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code on facilitating extremist activity.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in November 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Daria was detained on June 16. First, the girl was sentenced to 11 days in an administrative case. After her arrest, Daria went to the police department to pick up the phone, but there she was re-detained on a criminal case. The basis for initiating the case was photographs from peaceful protests in 2020, Tik-Tok videos and private correspondence.
She was released at the end of the summer of 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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The former MSLU teacher was detained in early October 2022 as part of a criminal case for participating in protests. She was detained by at least six security officials.
Prior to this, Natalia was detained four times during the year and tried on politically motivated administrative charges.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
On June 21, 2025, Natalia was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and was immediately taken to Lithuania.
She was detained for hanging a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine in a 19-storey building on Lesya Ukrainka Street.
After her arrest, the channel in the Zello mobile application, through which she communicated during the rally, was recognized as an extremist formation.
On September 19, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
She was found guilty of calling a special police telephone line from her partner’s phone on April 26, 2022 and “in an obscene form” expressing an insult towards Lukashenko. In the view of the prosecution, by doing this she publicly humiliated his authority, honor and dignity.
On December 20, 2022, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the charge, she left offensive comments and made threats against 50 officials: judges, prosecutors, employees of internal affairs bodies, state security, investigative bodies, members of precinct election commissions.
It is known that the prosecutor asked for two years of imprisonment for the 54 year old woman, but judge Dmitry Korsyuk imposed a harsher punishment - three years in a penal colony.
Polina is the wife of political prisoner journalist Dmitry Luksha, who is being held behind bars under the same articles (complicity in discrediting the Republic of Belarus and active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order). In addition to imprisonment, Polina was awarded a fine of 3 200 BYN.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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Detained for participating in protests. Inna has 4 minor children.
On October 11, 2023, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment.
She was detained in the Zeltser case (for comments); the charge was later reclassified .
On November 1, 2022, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.