Female ex-political prisoners from a Belarusian penal colony describe freezing cells, rotten food, psychological abuse, and ...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with a fear and anguish that still haunts her. She nearly lost parental ...
RFE/RL spoke to women who had been imprisoned at the Homyel penal colony on politically motivated charges. Now free and living in exile, they shared stories of enduring cold, rotten food, and slave ...