Denis Anatolyevich Tolstoystenkov
Denis Anatolyevich Tolstoystenkov
Number of repressed: 260
Date of birth: 17 august 1977
Categories: Overseers

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.

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In custody: 338 days
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 27.04.1967
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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The resident of Brest was accused of writing 2 comments under a video with Lukashenko on May 24, 2021, in the Facebook group “People’s Verdict”. One message said “sick person”, the second “schizophrenic”.

On May 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, she was released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome 12.04.2023:

1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Former political prisoners
In custody: ~593 days
Hometown: Malye Chuchevichi
Date of birth: 08.12.1979
Number of children: 1 child
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
23.04.2025 She was sentenced to 2 years in prison for "slandering" Lukashenko. On August 20, 2025, she was pardoned (after serving 1 year and 9 months). She died in the spring of 2025. The official reason was that her heart gave out.
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According to the case materials , in December 2022, Tamara Karavai posted slanderous information about Alexander Lukashenko on the Internet via a messenger on the Odnoklassniki social network.

At the court hearing, Karavai fully admitted her guilt, but refused to testify.

It is known that Tamara Karavai has a minor child in her care. She was released on July 20, 2024, by pardon.

Tamara died in the spring of 2025. The woman's acquaintances reported her death to Nasha Niva . The official reason was that her heart gave out. The exact date of death is unknown, but Tamara was last online on VKontakte on April 23, 2025.

Trial outcome 29.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Olga Pavlovna Zhelobkova
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In custody: ~719 days
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 24.12.1989
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to human rights activists , she will be released in the spring of 2025.

Trial outcome 24.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.06.2023
the sentence was upheld.
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In custody: ~652 days
Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth: 20.07.1990
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to the case materials , Olga Ivanchenko posted on her Odnoklassniki page in the public domain “text with an image containing deliberately false fabrications that disgrace Alexander Lukashenko, humiliate his honor and dignity, and are aimed at undermining his authority and creating a negative image.”

In addition, the woman posted “comments with a negative assessment of him, containing obscene language” under the post with an image of Alexander Lukashenko.

Olga has an autism spectrum disorder . After her arrest, she was held for about a month at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health in Novinki.

On 20.06.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, she will be released in the fall of 2024.

Trial outcome 21.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.06.2023
unknown.
Irena Iosifovna Klevets
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In custody: ~899 days
folder Categories of cases: Black Book of Belarus
Hometown: Slonim
Date of birth: 18.08.1983
Number of children: 4 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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39 year old Irena is a specialist of the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre, she was detained in the summer of 2022. It is known that the woman has 4 minor children. Slander was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code.

Trial outcome 28.03.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 25.07.2023
unknown.
Natalya Petrovich
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In custody: 610 days
Hometown: Yuzefovo
Date of birth: 27.02.1955
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Pensioner. Was detained at home for commenting.

On February 27, 2023, the woman turned 68 years old, which she met in prison.

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Trial outcome 11.08.2023:

6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Oksana Alexandrovna Levshova
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In custody: ~642 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 23.05.1974
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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She was sentenced to house chemistry for insulting A. Lukashenko. After that, she insulted Lukashenko again by phone, dialing 102. She has a leg disease, cannot move independently, and is disabled.

According to human rights activists, she will be released in January 2025.

Trial outcome 26.01.2023
4 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 11.07.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 10.10.2023
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~454 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 17.10.1983
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Anna was arrested on January 17 and immediately charged with criminal offenses for participating in the 2020 protests.

04/15/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome 28.04.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 25.07.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Oksana Anatolievna Zaretskaya
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In custody: 470 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk, Anti-war actions
Hometown: Bolshevik
Date of birth: 17.05.1982
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to human rights activists, Oksana was detained at the end of December 2022.
She was a member of the core team of the Coordination Council. In June 2021, she was detained during the premiere of the production “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit” and was released after drawing up a report. In May 2021, her apartment was searched.

Oksana was tried together with political prisoner Bohdan Korovets , founder of the Astronim company and the White Square advertising and marketing festival.

Oksana Zaretskaya’s father has health problems, Bogdan is raising a child with a disability.

According to human rights activists, Oksana felt unwell after the verdict was announced and was hospitalized. The woman spent at least three days in a coma, and after some time she was returned to Volodarka. The pre-trial detention center doctors did not provide proper medical care to Zaretskaya, and did not even take valerian for her in the packages from her relatives.

On April 10, 2024, she was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome:

1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 457 days
Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth: 27.01.1976
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to the case materials , “while at her place of residence, the 46-year-old accused, using her mobile phone and an account on the social network Facebook, posted material with an image of Lukashenko on the Internet for free access. In it, using obscene language, she gave a clearly negative assessment of the president’s personality, thereby humiliating his honor and dignity.”

Yuryeva admitted her guilt.

On April 13, 2023, 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.

Trial outcome 16.01.2023:

1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

Alexandra Maratovna Rybchik
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In custody: 642 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 16.06.1993
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Alexandra works as a manager at the logistics company Trans Solutions. The reason for the arrest was her photographs on Tinder, where she stands on the road with a white-red-white flag during one of the protest marches in 2020. The publication about the arrest appeared in one of the unofficial telegram channels of security forces. A “repentance” video was shot with the girl, where she confirms her participation in the protests. At first she was placed in a temporary detention facility, then a criminal case was opened against her.

On April 21, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 04.02.2023:

2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

Larisa Fyodorovna Shchiryakova
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In custody: ~1010 days
folder Categories of cases: Journalistic work
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 13.04.1973
Number of children: 1 child
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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In 2021, she publicly announced that she was leaving journalism. She explained her departure by saying that she had already had enough of being persecuted for working without accreditation. According to police reports, the courts punished the journalist with administrative fines more than forty times, including for covering post-election protests. Only one day was not assigned, since Shchiryakova was raising a minor son alone.

This year, in September, after the arrest of her former colleague in the journalistic field, Yevgeny Merkis, Shchiryakova raised the issue of the journalist’s detention in a pre-trial detention facility in her posts on social networks, and posted messages on her social network pages about solidarity actions with Yevgeny that were being held abroad.

After Larisa was detained, her son was taken to a shelter straight from school.

According to the case materials, Larisa Shchyryakova allegedly posted information on the Internet that discredited the Republic of Belarus. She is also accused of "collecting, creating, processing, storing and transmitting information for" Viasna" and "Belsat".

On the 11th of April 2025 it became clear that the 52nd anniversary of the Belarusian Regime Promymusov moved to the territory of Lithuania. There are people and citizens of the European countries. Larysa Shchyrakova was summoned.

Trial outcome 31.08.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Elena Alexandrovna Efremenko
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In custody: ~668 days
Hometown: Hrodna
Date of birth: 08.10.1977
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: Turma β„–1Turma β„–1, Grodno, Kirova 1, 230023
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Citizen of the Russian Federation. Elena has two minor daughters (born in 2014 and 2015).

Before the trial, she was held in pretrial detention for 8 months .

In March 2023, it became known about Elena's serious condition in IK-4, where she was serving her sentence. "For example, when Elena was once in a very serious condition, she was not given medical care, although everything was extremely bad. She had a temperature of almost 40, she was delirious, then she started having problems with her joints, an abscess. But then she was not even assigned to the medical unit, the prisoners themselves took her there," said one of the former prisoners.

She was released on October 29, 2024, having served her entire sentence .

Elena was deported from Belarus.

Trial outcome 04.11.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 10.01.2023
2 years 9 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~482 days
Hometown: Remezy
Date of birth: 26.01.1965
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to human rights activists , she was released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome 29.11.2022
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: 508 days
Hometown: Navapolatsk
Date of birth: 10.04.1985
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Convicted for participating in protests in 2020.

The appeal was considered on February 10, 2023.

According to human rights activists, she was released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome 21.11.2022:

1.5 years in prison

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