Department of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Detachment Head.
Since 2023/2024 — employee of Penal Colony No. 24.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens.
Olga Viktorovna Zyuzina (Kholyavko) is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression.
Guilty of abusing political prisoners on the grounds of Penal Colony No. 4. She filed reports on trumped-up grounds and prevented them from gathering in the same area. She insulted and humiliated them, especially if she saw a smile or heard laughter. She demanded confessions for participating in protests. She baselessly accused them of substance abuse.
She received a promotion thanks to her cruel treatment of political prisoners.
Department of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel Region and the City of Gomel. Penal Colony No. 4. Detachment Head.
Since 2023/2024 — employee of Penal Colony No. 24.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens.
Olga Viktorovna Zyuzina (Kholyavko) is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression.
Guilty of abusing political prisoners on the grounds of Penal Colony No. 4. She filed reports on trumped-up grounds and prevented them from gathering in the same area. She insulted and humiliated them, especially if she saw a smile or heard laughter. She demanded confessions for participating in protests. She baselessly accused them of substance abuse.
She received a promotion thanks to her cruel treatment of political prisoners.
Galina was accused of having arrived from Minsk to Mogilev on February 18, 2022, where she pasted texts and images with obviously unreliable evidence at public transport stops, humiliating the honor and dignity of the head of state, coupled with an accusation of a particularly serious crime.
25.05.2024, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
Trial outcome 07.07.2022:
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Operator at "BOBRUISCTRICOTAZH". Accused of sabotaging the railway near Bobruisk stations, as well as setting fire to the shooting range of military unit 5527.
Before the trial, she was under recognizance not to leave.
On October 25, 2022, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists, she should be released in July 2024.
05.02.2025 She died six months after her release from oncology, which she had been diagnosed with in prison. She served a full 3 years of imprisonment for her comments. Despite her serious illness, Anna was not released early.
According to the indictment, Anna posted offensive comments about Lukashenko A.G. and other government officials and law enforcement officials in several Telegram channels throughout 2021. On July 10, 2023, Anna will be tried again under the article for "insult".
In June 2023, Kondratenko was returned from the Gomel women's penal colony IK-4 to the Mogilev prison to stand trial for a second criminal case. This time, she was charged with a comment on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" regarding Andrei Bagrayonok, a traffic police inspector of the Svetlogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs. The post about him appeared on September 27, 2021, and Kondratenko left a comment on September 28.
Anna's second sentence was 1 year of imprisonment and a fine of 50 basic units.
By absorbing a less severe punishment with a more severe one, Kondratenko was left with the same term of 3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. In both criminal cases, the woman now owes the state more than 5 thousand Belarusian rubles.
The woman died six months after her release from cancer, which she had been diagnosed with in the colony in Gomel. According to former political prisoners , Anna did not receive any parcels or packages. "Her mother is elderly, retired, it was hard for her, so we thought about how to help her ourselves." Despite her serious illness, Kondratenko was not released early. Moreover, the woman was taken from the colony to a pretrial detention center again and tried again under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 12.07.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.10.2022
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 11.07.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 10.10.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Final verdict by partial addition:
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After two administrative arrests, she was not released, but was re-detained in a criminal case under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
In September 2023, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
Trial outcome 13.10.2022:
1, 5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Olga Novikova and her husband Viktor were sentenced to imprisonment for participating in protests in 2020 (Article 342 of the Criminal Code). It is noteworthy that her 35-year-old husband Viktor Novikov was also released on pardon, but on July 3.
Trial outcome 07.06.2022:
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
On February 16, 2022, Natalya Malets was detained in Grodno. She was detained along with her daughter. As the latter said, when Natalya refused to provide her phone to the security forces, they took her by the hair with the words “You still don’t understand who is in power here?”.
On December 28, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
After serving her administrative arrest, she was detained on criminal charges; on April 4, 2022, she was convicted of participating in seven Sunday Marches over the course of two months from August 23 to October 25, 2020.
The girl admitted her guilt in court and that she actually took part in them.
On August 28, 2024, she was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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