Kseniya Khоdyrаva

Date of birth: 18 September 1996

Date of detention: 10 October 2023

Charges indicted:

Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group
Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code — Participation or preparing to participate in hostilities on foreign soil by a Republic of Belarus citizen

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Sviatlana Makarevich

Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 3

Kseniya Khоdyrаva

Kseniya Khоdyrаva was arrested for making donations and thus violating Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code (Financing the activities of an extremist group). 

After the arrest the girl spent several months in the pre-trial detention center of the KGB, then she was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1.

On February 16, 2024, Judge Sviatlana Makarevich sentenced the political prisoner to five years in a general-security penal colony.

 
Mail address: Pre-trial detention center No. 3. 246003, Homieĺ, vulica Knižnaja 1A

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