EPAM Employee Katsiaryna Hlinskaia Left Belarus After Her Release From Prison

The young woman was sentenced by the Lukashists and spent two years in prison.

EPAM employee Katsiaryna Hlinskaia, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison in October 2022 for gross violation of order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code), left Belarus. She announced this on Instagram.

“Hello, brave new world! I'm back from hell! Now I know what hell is! A place where demons learn to pray,” she wrote.

According to Viasna HRC, she left the prison in April. Judging by the her social media pages, she is now in Vilnius, writes Mediazona.

On October 14, 2022, the Partizanski District Court of Minsk sentenced Hlinskaia to two years in prison on charges of gross violation of order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code). In July 2022, a pro-government Telegram channel published a video with an employee of the IT company EPAM who returned from Lithuania.

The enforcers detained her together with her sister Yuliya, who was arrested for 15 days. The article incriminated was not specified.