human rights defender
Valeryia Kastsiuhova
Actions and Campaigns
Valeryia Kastsiuhova
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Organization affiliation
- Nashe Mneniye (Our Opinion)
HRD's year of birth
1967
HRD's Gender
Woman
Type of HRD
- Academic
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Economic, social and cultural rights
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
Pardoned
HRD's bio and work
Valeryia Kastsiuhova is a political scientist, an analyst, the founder and editor of the Nashe Mneniye (Our Opinion) expert community website, the Belarusian Yearbook editor and author, and the head of the Belarus in Focus monitoring experts group.
Detained since
Jun 30, 2021
Date of release
Mar 20, 2026
Charge(s)
- Other
- Subversion
Sentence
10 years
Latitude: 52.43
Longitude: 30.94
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
Location of detention - City/Town
Homieĺ
Location of detention - Facility
Penal colony No. 4. 246035, Homieĺ, vulica Antoshkina 4
Recent case update / evolution
On March 19, 2026, John Coale, the United States Special Envoy to Belarus, visited Minsk. Following negotiations, Aliaksandr Lukashenka pardoned 250 political prisoners, releasing 235 in Belarus and forcibly transferring 15 to Lithuania. Among those released in Belarus was Valeryia Kastsiuhova.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1967
- HRD's Gender
- Woman
- Type of HRD
- Academic
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Economic, social and cultural rights
- Organization affiliation
- Nashe Mneniye (Our Opinion)
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Valeryia Kastsiuhova is a political scientist, an analyst, the founder and editor of the Nashe Mneniye (Our Opinion) expert community website, the Belarusian Yearbook editor and author, and the head of the Belarus in Focus monitoring experts group.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Homieĺ
- Location of detention - Facility
- Penal colony No. 4. 246035, Homieĺ, vulica Antoshkina 4
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 52.43
Longitude: 30.94
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Jun 30, 2021
- Current Status
- Pardoned
- Date of release
- Mar 20, 2026
- Charge(s)
- Other
- Subversion
- Sentence
10 years
- Recent case update / evolution
On March 19, 2026, John Coale, the United States Special Envoy to Belarus, visited Minsk. Following negotiations, Aliaksandr Lukashenka pardoned 250 political prisoners, releasing 235 in Belarus and forcibly transferring 15 to Lithuania. Among those released in Belarus was Valeryia Kastsiuhova.
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- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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