Last year Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk

, a political prisoner of European Belarus,

was sentenced to 2 years in prison.

She was to be released in September this year.

However, on April 7, a closed court on the territory of the Homel women's colony sentenced Palina to an additional 1 year in prison.

In February she was charged with gross disobedience to the penitentiary administration.

The verdict was passed by the judge of Chyhunachny district of Homel

Mikalai Krupadzyorau

.

Palina tried to challenge the verdict in the Homel Regional Court, but the decision of the court of first instance remained unchanged, Belsat reports.