Vera Tsvikevich

served full term, released

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 4 April 1992

Date of detention: 27 January 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 1 year

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 26 October 2022

Judge: Volha Malashanka

Notes: Foreign citizens

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Vera Tsvikevich Photo: Aliaksandr Kots

A citizen of Russia Vera Tsvikevich was detained on January 27, 2022, in a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).

In August 2020, a photo of Vera was on the front page of one of the most popular newspapers in Belarus “Kamsamolskaya prauda”.

On May 5, 2022, the trial started in the Maskoŭski district of Minsk court. On May 6 Judge Volha Malashenka found Vera guilty and sentenced her to 12 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

The political prisoner served her sentence in full and was released on October 26, 2022. After her release, she was immediately brought to the Russian border, as Tsvikevich was banned from entering Belarus for five years. She was not even given time to pack her things.

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