Alena Totskaya

Date of birth: 20 August 1962

Date of detention: 23 January 2023

Charges indicted:

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

Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 8

Alena Totskaya has been detained under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code. She is accused of 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 Totskaya was a civil servant but became an activist and volunteer in 2020.

Mail address: Pre-trial detention center No. 8. 222163, Žodzina, vulica Savieckaja 22A

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