{"id":66152,"date":"2024-02-10T02:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&p=66152"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"former-political-prisoner-evacuated-from-belarus-mother-arrested-on-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/66152\/","title":{"rendered":"Former political prisoner evacuated from Belarus, mother arrested on criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Volha Takar\u010duk and her mother.\n <\/div>\n \n
\n (Viasna)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

February 10, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Blogger and designer Volha Takar\u010duk has been evacuated from Belarus, BYSOL Foundation co-founder Andrej Stry\u017eak said on Facebook yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe former political prisoner had to contact the foundation\u2019s evacuation service because of the recent crackdown,\u201d Stry\u017eak said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnfortunately, Volha\u2019s mother, 63-year-old Iryna Takar\u010duk, remained a prisoner of the Lukashists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Viasna Human Rights Center reported Iryna Takar\u010duk\u2019s arrest on February 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to human rights defenders, she is accused of facilitating extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman was arrested during a security crackdown on January 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volha Takar\u010duk was arrested on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was reported that she was taken to the Committee for State Security after a raid, interrogated about receiving aid through the Edostavka delivery service, and asked to write a confession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is my guilt? That my subscriber bought me sausage?\u201d the blogger said, as quoted by Viasna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWrite a sincere confession that you repent and will no longer accept sausage from the subscriber.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 24, an investigator called the father of the former political prisoner and asked him to be a witness in his wife\u2019s case, human rights defenders said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigator asked Volha Takar\u010duk to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She then fled Belarus with her father and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have one sister left in Belarus, who has a disabled grandmother (my father\u2019s mother), and my mother in a prison in \u017dodzina,\u201d the former political prisoner said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2021, law enforcers searched the apartment where Takar\u010duk lived with her husband and minor children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was suspected of insulting a judge and defamation, and later faced a public order offense charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2021, a district court in Minsk sentenced Takar\u010duk to a year and a half behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 16, 2022, she was released from Homiel\u2019s Penal Colony No. 4 after serving her sentence in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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