human rights defender
Alena Tsimashchuk
Actions and Campaigns
Organization affiliation
- Brestskaya Gazeta
- Brestsky Vestnik
- Zeleny Portal
HRD's Gender
Woman
Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Environmental rights
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
Pardoned
HRD's bio and work
Alena has a higher education in psychology and sometimes wrote on this subject. She did not engage in political publications while cooperating with independent media outlets.
Detained since
Jun 3, 2024
Date of release
Sep 11, 2025
Charge(s)
- Extremism
- Other
Sentence
5 years
Latitude: 52.464231
Longitude: 30.973144
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 3
Recent case update / evolution
On September 11, 2025, it was revealed that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania. Alena Tsimashchuk was among those released.
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