Alena Tserashkova
Former political prisoner (Recognized ex post facto)
Date of birth: 9 June 1977
Date of detention: 20 May 2024
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")
Judge: Yulyana Shcherba
Groups: Athletes, Cultural workers, Doctors
Notes: Parents of three or more children
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Alena Tserashkova is an oral surgeon, Belarusian writer, translator, two-time champion of Belarus in taekwondo, mother of four children, sister of activist and political prisoner Maksim Viniarski, who was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Information about the detention of Tserashkova appeared on May 20, 2024. In the previous years she was repeatedly arrested and punished with administrative fines.
On June 20, 2024, Judge Yulyana Shcherba found her guilty of participation in the protest of 2020 (Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code) and punished her with restriction of freedom without sending her to an open-type institution for 3 years.
She was released from custody in the courtroom.
