{"id":12983,"date":"2025-09-11T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:49:50","slug":"larysa-shchyrakova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2025\/09\/11\/larysa-shchyrakova.html","title":{"rendered":"\u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova (released on September 11, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Political persecution:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakovawas was arrested on December 6, 2022, in Homel. Svyatoslav’s 16-year-old son was placed in a socio-pedagogical center in the Gomel district. The ex-husband of \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakovatook her son Svyatoslav from the shelter.<\/p>\n

On December 16, 2022, \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova was recognized as a political prisoner.<\/p>\n

On June 7, 2023, \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova\u2019s mother died, but she was not allowed to attend her funeral.<\/p>\n

\u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova\u2019s trial began in Homel in a closed session. She was accused of violating Art. 369.1 (discrediting the Republic of Belarus) and Art. 361.4 of the Criminal Code (facilitating an extremist activity). According to the version of the investigators, \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova, “took advantage of the tense public situation and tried to destabilize the situation in the country, uploaded, enabling the publication, and published herself on the Internet, also on destructive resources, materials with false information that discredited the Republic of Belarus” and “carried out collection, creation, processing, storage and transfer of information for Viasna HRC and Belsat TV Channel.<\/p>\n

On 31 August,<\/strong> the Homiel Regional Court sentenced Larysa \u0160\u010dyrakova to three and a half years in a penal colony and a fine of 3,500 BYN ($1,386) under Art. 369.1 of the Criminal Code (discrediting the Republic of Belarus) and Art. 361.4 of the Criminal Code (facilitating extremist activities).<\/p>\n

On 11 August, information appeared that\u00a0Larysa \u0160\u010dyrakova did not file an appeal to the Supreme Court against the ruling of the Homiel Regional Court. Larysa \u0160\u010dyrakova was transferred from the pre-trial detention centre to the women\u2019s penal colony in Homiel (Anto\u0161kina Street 4).<\/p>\n

On 22 September, the Ministry of Internal Affairs added the political prisoner, populariser of Belarusian culture and journalist\u00a0Larysa \u0160\u010dyrakova<\/span>to the \u201cList of Belarusian citizens, foreign citizens or stateless persons involved in extremist activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larysa \u0160\u010dyrakova was released on September 11, 2025 and forced into exile.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Creative activity:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Born on April 3, 1973. Journalist, local historian, documentary filmmaker, popularizer of history and culture, performer of folk songs, reconstructor of folk rites, coordinator of the project to honor the memory of the repressed Killed and Forgotten.<\/p>\n

She plays the role of the repressed and executed Belarusian political figure Pa\u0142uta Badunova in the film Pa\u0142uta Badunova: To Remember and Not to Forget<\/em><\/a>, directed by Valer Mazynski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Journalist, local historian, documentary filmmaker, popularizer of history and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":12984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4310],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bylyya_lyudzi_slova_u_nyavoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21355,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions\/21355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}