Palina Arekhava
Former prisoner
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
Date of release: 9 September 2023
Judge: Tatsiana Falkouskaya
Cases: The Zeltser case
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)
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.
