Marfa
Rabkova
Marfa Rabkova was born on January 6, 1995. Until 2016 she studied at the Maksim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University, but the administration forced her to leave her studies because of her activism. Marfa has volunteered for various charitable organizations and coordinated the Viasna Human Rights Center volunteer service. Marfa had repeatedly faced persecution even before the events of 2020.
Marfa Rabkova was detained on September 17, 2020, together with her husband, Vadim Zharomski. The investigation charged Marfa with a number of crimes. The case file amounted to 160 volumes. During her imprisonment, Marfa Rabkova's health deteriorated significantly. IN SEPTEMBER 2022, MARFA WAS SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT.
Find Marfa's current address on her PERSONAL PAGE at the Viasna Human Rights Center website. Click SEND A POSTCARD to support her and sign a postcard for the political prisoner.
Unfortunately, this author’s poems have not been translated into this language yet. But you may help us!
If you are willing to help us translate political prisoners’ poems into a language you know, please contact us via viersy.online@gmail.com or Telegram.
In language and poems, in bright people that are in dark places, — Belarus Lives.
POEMS FROM PRISON IS A JOINT PROJECT OF THE FREEDOM POSTCARDS INITIATIVE AND People’s Embassy of Belarus in Brazil.
Marfa
Rabkova
Marfa Rabkova was born on January 6, 1995. Until 2016 she studied at the Maksim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University, but the administration forced her to leave her studies because of her activism. Marfa has volunteered for various charitable organizations and coordinated the Viasna Human Rights Center volunteer service. Marfa had repeatedly faced persecution even before the events of 2020.
Marfa Rabkova was detained on September 17, 2020, together with her husband, Vadim Zharomski. The investigation charged Marfa with a number of crimes that could carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. The case file amounted to 160 volumes. During her imprisonment, Marfa Rabkova's health deteriorated significantly.
Find Marfa's current address on her PERSONAL PAGE at the Viasna Human Rights Center website. Click SEND A POSTCARD to support her and sign a postcard for the political prisoner.
Unfortunately, this author’s poems have not been translated into this language yet. But you may help us!
If you are willing to help us translate political prisoners’ poems into a language you know, please contact us via viersy.online@gmail.com or Telegram.
In language and poems, in bright people that are in dark places, — Belarus Lives.
POEMS FROM PRISON IS A JOINT PROJECT OF THE FREEDOM POSTCARDS INITIATIVE AND People’s Embassy of Belarus in Brazil.