{"id":103539,"date":"2024-09-04T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T17:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/103539\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"activist-maryna-kisialevic-released-on-pardon","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/103539\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Maryna Kisialevi\u010d released on pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\n \"\"\n
\n \n
\n (Viasna)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

September 4, Pozirk. <\/em><\/strong>Maryna Kisialevi\u010d, activist of the Mothers-328 group, has been released on pardon, according to the founder of the human rights initiative Palitviazynka, Ja\u016dhienija Do\u016dhaja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exact date of Kisialevi\u010d’s release is unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past few months, the Belarusian government has freed dozens of its opponents. However, over 1,300 political prisoners remain behind bars, and reprisals continue, according to human rights organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2022, a Minsk judge sentenced Kisialevi\u010d to four years of restricted freedom in an open-type correctional facility for libeling and insulting the head of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the trial, officers held the woman in custody for four and a half months, including in a punishment cell. She was on hunger strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to human rights defenders, in April 2024, a judge considered replacing Kisialevi\u010d’s sentence with a 10-month prison term. Officials transferred her to Homiel’s Penal Colony No. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mothers-328 is a movement whose name refers to a commonly applied Criminal Code article against illegal drug trafficking. The movement unites relatives of drug convicts seeking mitigated sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, authorities sentenced Kisialevi\u010d’s son to 13 years’ imprisonment under drug articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n
\n \"\"