Olga Mayorova, sentenced to 20 years, has severely deteriorated eyesight in the colony
Political prisoner and former UCP activist Olga Mayorova has reported a decline in her health and a threat to her life. Radio Svaboda was told this by a former inmate of colony No. 24, who saw Olga Mayorova before her release.
"She is in a very bad state. Firstly, health-wise, because she sees very poorly and is gradually losing the remnants of her eyesight in the colony, already almost unable to see. Secondly, as she says, she is being threatened, so she is seriously worried about her life," the woman said about Mayorova.
Olga Mayorova is serving her sentence in colony No. 24 in the village of Zarechye, Rechytsa district. This colony is intended for women who have committed more than one crime, including recidivists. In the colony, the political prisoner received a red tag "prone to terrorism," due to which she is deprived of many rights, including a ban on money transfers and parcels with medicines.
Before her release in February 2025, Polina Sharenda-Panasyuk was serving her sentence in colony No. 24. In a conversation with "Svaboda," she mentioned that she had seen Olga Mayorova in the colony, and even then, her condition caused alarm.
"She moves with difficulty because she sees very poorly. She is already a pensioner, so she does not work and stays in the unit. But I know that she receives no money from her pension; she is in a very difficult financial situation," Polina Sharenda-Panasyuk said about Mayorova.
Olga Mayorova was a defendant in Nikolai Avtukhovich's terrorism case. In 2022, the woman was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment under several articles of the Criminal Code, including Article 295 on "illegal actions with weapons."
Initially, Mayorova served her sentence in Gomel women's colony No. 4, but there a new case was opened against her under Article 411 on "malicious disobedience to the administration," an additional year and a half was added to her term, and she was transferred to colony No. 24 in Zarechye. It was there that she began to lose her eyesight.
"She has cataracts, scars, a threat of complete blindness. She sought help, but the medical unit of the colony refused treatment. Moreover, due to her 'terrorist' status, medicines and medical parcels from relatives are not passed on to her," Olga Zazulina reported about Olga Mayorova last year.
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