Alena Paulovich
copy shop owner, sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 2 October 1987
Date of detention: 26 July 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 4 May 2024
Judge: Mikhail Makarevich
Groups: Businessmen
Alena Paulovich runs Lisa copy shop from Barysaŭ. She was detained at the end of July 2022. During the search, the police forced Alena to tear the white-red-white wallpaper off the wall.
A criminal case under Article 342 of the Criminal Code for ‘group actions grossly violating the public order’ was opened against the woman and she was placed in a pre-trial detention center.
Alena was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment while her husband Dzmitryi received 18 months in a general-security penal colony.
Judge Mikhail Makarevich passed the verdict.
The family has two minor children who are now under the grandmother's care.
