{"id":572061,"date":"2026-08-28T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=572061"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:30:55","slug":"supreme-court-to-hear-appeal-in-korsakau-family-case-over-treason-against-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/supreme-court-to-hear-appeal-in-korsakau-family-case-over-treason-against-the-state","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court To Hear Appeal In Korsakau Family Case Over &#8220;Treason Against The State&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court panel will hear an appeal today against the in-absentia conviction of <strong>Pelageya Korsakova<\/strong>, who was convicted under the article on &#8220;treason against the state,&#8221; the human rights center Viasna <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/viasna96\/36216\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Minsk City Court <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/minsk-family-convicted-on-state-treason-charges\">sentenced<\/a> 27-year-old <b>Pelageya Korsakava<\/b> in absentia to 11 years in prison. Her parents, <b>Tatsiana\u00a0<\/b>and <b>Dzmitry Korsakau<\/b>, were sentenced to 12 and 14 years, respectively. The court also fined the family 50,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were charged under articles concerning &#8220;treason against the state,&#8221; illegal handling of firearms, ammunition and explosives, as well as the illegal movement of weapons, ammunition and toxic substances across the border. Their daughter was found guilty of &#8220;treason against the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pelageya Korsakava has lived in Ukraine since 2021, where she works as a graphic designer and coordinates rapid-response volunteers who assist people affected by missile strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents, who previously worked at a kindergarten, were detained in September 2025. According to Pelageya, before his detention her father called her and said that he had been detained, while her mother had allegedly been hospitalized with a stroke. After that, an unidentified person demanded that the woman come to Belarus if she wanted to secure her parents&#8217; release. It later emerged that Tatsiana Korsakava had not been hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>Pelageya Korsakava considers the charges against her family absurd and links the criminal prosecution to her living in Ukraine and maintaining contact with her parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court panel will hear an appeal today against the in-absentia conviction of Pelageya Korsakova, who was convicted under the article on &#8220;treason against the state,&#8221; the human rights center Viasna reports. In June, the Minsk City Court sentenced 27-year-old Pelageya Korsakava in absentia to 11 years in prison. Her parents, Tatsiana\u00a0and Dzmitry Korsakau, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":572060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a91717890d9e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Supreme Court To Hear Appeal In Korsakau Family Case Over \u00abTreason Against The State\u00bb"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143174,143178,143093],"class_list":["post-572061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarusskie-politzakljuchennye","tag-politzakljuchennye","tag-sudy"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}