Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Denis Anatolyevich Tolstenkov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. According to his decree, political prisoners were unreasonably restricted in their rights in penal colony No. 4. Tolstenkov exerted psychological pressure on women convicted for political reasons. Insulted them, humiliated them on the basis of gender, wished for their death. Prevented them from receiving parcels and communicating with lawyers. He drew up reports on far-fetched grounds, and then held commissions to determine punishment.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Denis Anatolyevich Tolstenkov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. According to his decree, political prisoners were unreasonably restricted in their rights in penal colony No. 4. Tolstenkov exerted psychological pressure on women convicted for political reasons. Insulted them, humiliated them on the basis of gender, wished for their death. Prevented them from receiving parcels and communicating with lawyers. He drew up reports on far-fetched grounds, and then held commissions to determine punishment.
She defended political prisoners Ales Pushkin, Artem Boyarsky, Igor Banzer, Andrei Avsievich, Andrei Sokolovsky in court.
On February 23, 2022, she was expelled from the Grodno Regional Bar Association for systematic violations of the law. Yulia left Belarus, but returned to the country at the end of August 2022.
She was detained on the same day together with Pavel Mozheyko
Pavel and Yulia pleaded not guilty. Yurgilevich stated at the trial that she was being held in "bestial conditions" and was not allowed to get acquainted with the case.
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.
Advocate. She was detained in early June 2022, two days after her 40th birthday, for leaking data to Telegram channels. The security forces came to detain a woman with machine guns and bulletproof vests - they climbed into the windows and broke down the door.
In March 2023, it became known that she was also charged under Art. 203-1 of the Criminal Code (Illegal actions regarding information about private life) and Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code. According to investigators, she allegedly organized an unauthorized mass event when she held a consultation near Akrestsina in August 2020.
At home she left an elderly father and a 19-year-old son who has been suffering from Crohn's disease since the age of 16.
Trial outcome 11.05.2023:
6 years of imprisonment in a 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.
A 2nd class lawyer, a former employee of the prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district of Minsk, worked for some time as an HR specialist in an IT company. Natalia is accused of leaking information to the Black Book of Belarus.
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.
Olga, who worked as an art director at the Europa Hotel in Minsk, was detained in August 2021 as part of a criminal case initiated under the article “act of terrorism” and convicted in June 2023 under several criminal articles.
According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group" allegedly preparing extremist crimes operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries. It included radical military personnel, security officials, athletes and businessmen who sought to seize power illegally. This case is related to the attempted arson of the house of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and the "organization of mass riots."
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 is accused of allegedly sharing personal information with the Telegram channel "Black Book of Belarus."
On June 27, 2022, pro-government Telegram channels reported that the woman worked for a state-owned company and had access to the personal data of security officials.
She was under house arrest before the trial.
In July 2026, it was announced that Tatyana had been diagnosed with cancer. Furthermore, Tatyana suffers from severe back pain related to a previous compression fracture of the spine.
Trial outcome 27.09.2022:
6,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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.
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.
She was detained on February 17, 2022 at her place of residence. Her house was searched.
At first, she was sentenced to administrative arrest, but after the end of the arrest, Anastasia did not go free.
Trial outcome:
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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.
The activist of the "European Belarus" was detained on December 30, 2021 in a criminal case on group actions that grossly violate public order.
On January 7, 2022, the woman was transferred to a pre-trial detention facility.
Elena has a little son.
In January 2023, Elena was transferred to Gomel Women's Colony No. 4. For a long time, a lawyer could not get to the political prisoner; she was placed in a punishment cell.
In October 2023, it became known that Elena's parcel was not accepted in August. This most likely indicates that she was deprived of parcels. The last letter from Elena arrived in early September, and there have been no letters from her since then. Since Lazarchik's transfer to the colony, permission has never been received from the institution's administration to meet with a lawyer. What is happening to Elena now, what condition she is in, is unknown. Elena has problems with her teeth in the colony, and she has lost weight.
In mid-November 2023, human rights activists learned that Elena had been placed in solitary confinement again.
According to the testimony of the former political prisoner, Elenaservedmore than 90daysin a punishment cell and more than 60 days in a PKT .
In the spring of 2025, Elena was convicted under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the legal demands of the colony administration) and sentenced to another year and a half in prison in addition to eight years of imprisonment. It is unknown when the sentence was handed down . It is known that Elena refused the services of a lawyer at the trial.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security 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.
The apartment was searched under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Then the article of accusation was reclassified to Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
He is previously accused of distributing personal data of Interior Ministry employees.
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.
The apartment was searched under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Then the article of accusation was reclassified to Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
He is previously accused of distributing personal data of Interior Ministry employees.
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.
Yana was detained in St. Petersburg on November 1, 2021, as part of a criminal case opened under several criminal articles, including "inciting other forms of social hatred and discord," "public calls for the seizure of state power," and "creating or participating in an extremist group."
In May 2022, a Russian court denied Yana temporary asylum.
On August 9, 2022, she was extradited from Russia to Belarus, despite a ban on extradition by the UN Human Rights Committee.
In June 2023, Yana was found guilty of administering the Telegram channel "Vitebsk 97%," in which, according to investigators, she posted messages with "negative assessments of law enforcement officers and government agencies," and allegedly published "calls to harm police officers" and "extremist materials."
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, a Belarusian Railways employee, was detained in the fall of 2021 as part of a criminal case brought against factory employees who supported the strike and were part of the "Rabochy Rukh" (Workers' Movement) initiative. On September 21, 2021, this initiative was designated an extremist organization, following which mass arrests of workers took place across the country.
In February 2023, Anna was found guilty of treason and the creation of and participation in an extremist group and sentenced to imprisonment.
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.
Anastasia was detained in August 2021 as part of a criminal case initiated under the article “act of terrorism”, and in June 2023 she was convicted under several criminal articles.
According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group" allegedly preparing extremist crimes operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries. It included radical military personnel, security officials, athletes and businessmen who sought to seize power illegally. This case is related to the attempted arson of the house of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and the "organization of mass riots."
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.
Olga was detained in August 2021 as part of a criminal case initiated under the article "act of terrorism" and convicted in June 2023 under several criminal articles.
According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group" allegedly preparing extremist crimes operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries. It included radical military personnel, security officials, athletes and businessmen who sought to seize power illegally. This case is related to the attempted arson of the house of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and the "organization of mass riots."
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.
Natalia was arrested in June 2021 on suspicion of planning to set fire to logging equipment. The arrest took place in the evening right on the forestry farm grounds, where she allegedly arrived with her accomplice, Gordeyev, who was actually on assignment from state security agencies.
According to the prosecution, on the evening of June 8, 2021, Natalia and this man prepared Molotov cocktails, which they planned to use to set fire to the equipment. However, the crime was not completed—Natalia was detained before the arson could be committed.
In court, Natalia testified that she had found herself in a difficult situation: in August 2020, an acquaintance of hers was arrested, she had lost her father, and was experiencing difficulties at work. She also confirmed that she had indeed been a member of the "OGSB" chat group and had intended to destroy logging equipment at the forestry enterprise.
In December 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony with a large 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.
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