Palina Arekhava
Date of birth: 9 June 1991
Date of detention: 30 September 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Tatsiana Falkouskaya
Prison: Penal colony No. 4
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Palina Arekhava was detained in Minsk for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.