Alena Totskaya
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 20 August 1962
Date of detention: 23 January 2024
Charges indicted:
- Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities
Sentence: 4 1/2 years
Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")
Judge: Viachaslau Tuleyka
Groups: Activists
Notes: «Solidarity Raid»
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.
