{"id":19396,"date":"2026-01-06T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=19396"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:23:49","slug":"czina-palynskaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2026\/01\/06\/czina-palynskaya.html","title":{"rendered":"Cina Pa\u0142ynskaja"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Political persecution:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>On 19 May 2025, she stopped responding to communications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On 8 June 2025,<\/strong> reports emerged indicating that Cina Pa\u0142ynskaja and her daughter\u00a0Marho Rabinovi\u010d, who is a student at Belarus State University, are currently facing criminal charges and are held in pre-trial detention centre No. 2 in Viciebsk.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights defenders believe that\u00a0Pa\u0142ynskaja\u00a0and\u00a0Rabinovi\u010d\u00a0are being prosecuted for their participation in sociological surveys conducted by the Belarusian Analytical Workroom, which the KGB designated as an \u201cextremist organisation\u201d on 16 May 2025 (the decision was published on 21 May).<\/p>\n<p>On 6 June 2025,\u00a0Cina Pa\u0142ynskaja\u00a0and her elder daughter\u00a0Marho Rabinovi\u010d\u00a0were recognised as political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On 6 January 2026<\/strong>, the trial in the case of Cina Pa\u0142ynskaja and Marharyta Rabinovi\u010d began. The verdict: <strong>two years of imprisonment in a minimum-security penal colony<\/strong> under Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code (membership in an extremist formation for the purpose of committing an extremist crime).<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Creative activity:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Pa\u0142ynskaja is known for writing family history books and researching documents in archives across Belarus and other post-Soviet countries. Her public writings reflect a humanistic and anti-war stance. In June 2022, she was fined 3,200 BYN (approx. 1,230 USD) for displaying ribbons in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, and the Investigative Committee launched proceedings over her anti-war posts on Facebook. On 5 June 2022, police searched her apartment. In 2023, her younger daughter was temporarily placed in a social shelter.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Place of detention:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Pre-trial detention centre No. 2, 2 Haharyna Street, 210026 Viciebsk, Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><b>Cina Pa\u0142ynskaja<\/b> is a non-fiction author.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":19397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4282],"class_list":["post-19396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-people-of-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19396"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21753,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396\/revisions\/21753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}