Zhanna Volkava
Prisoner
Date of birth: 4 July 1979
Date of detention: 11 May 2023
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
- Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Aleh Kharoshka
Prison: Penal colony No. 4
Cases: Protests in Homieĺ
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Clare Haughey, Scottish National Party
Zhanna Volkava was detained at school No. 63, where the woman came to meet her child’s teacher on May 11. Now Zhanna is in Homiel pre-trial detention center. She is charged with political Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Incitement to hatred).
According to media reports, during the 2020 protests, police detained Volkava on administrative charges.
