Alena Dzemianchuk

Prisoner

Date of birth: 29 March

Date of detention: 23 January 2024

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Siarhei Bieraziuk

Prison: Penal colony No. 4

Cases: Donations

Notes: «Solidarity Raid»

Alena Dzemianchuk was detained under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code. She is charged with financing extremist activities. The detention was part of a larger prosecution effort by the authorities against individuals supporting political prisoners and their families through the social project INeedHelpBy, which provides food aid.

Alena Dzemianchuk is the mother of former political prisoner Maryna Hlazava.

 
Mail address: Penal colony No. 4. 246035, Homieĺ, vulica Antoshkina 3

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