Natallia Lashch
former Prosecutor's Office employee
Date of birth: 24 April 1993
Date of detention: 17 August 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Art. 179 of the Criminal Code — Illegal collection and dissemination of information about private life
Sentence: 6 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 20 June 2023
Judge: Anatol Dabradzei
Prison: Penal colony No. 4
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Charles Margue, Member of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies
Natallia Lashch is a former Prosecutor's Office employee, who was detained in August 2022 as part of the criminal case of leaking data to the Black Book of Belarus, a Telegram channel that exposes personal data of government and security officials involved in repression. She is charged with ‘incitement of hatred’ under Article 130 of the Criminal Code and placed in pre-trial detention center.
