Larissa Shchyrakova

Larissa Shchyrakova is a former journalist and political prisoner in Belarus, who recently gained international attention after being released from imprisonment. Shchyrakova served a three-year jail term for her activism against the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko. Upon her release, she expressed that she had completed her sentence but was expelled from her country, highlighting the ongoing repression faced by dissenters in Belarus.