Writer Spends Two Months In Remand Prison, Gets Fired From Her Job ‘For Absenteeism’ Afterwards

• 17.07.2023, 16:55

Now she also “owes” the state.

Yana Cegla, a writer and journalist for the Litaratura i Mastactva newspaper, was fired from her job in early June “for absenteeism” — this is how the editors interpreted her two months in a pre-trial detention center. Since the woman worked for the newspaper after university, she now has to pay the state more than 3.5 thousand rubles, Zerkalo notes.

In June, Yana Cegla was sentenced to two years of liberty restriction for participating in protests under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code. And before that, she spent two months in the remand prisons #1 and #8. On the day of the verdict, she was fired from her job “for absenteeism”, although she spent all this time in custody.

Yana has been working in the Litaratura i Mastactva newspaper since 2021 as an assignment after graduating from the history department of the Belarusian State University, and she had only two months left before the end of the working term.

“In May, my free education somehow turned into a debt of 3,629 Belarusian rubles,” says Yana. The woman does not have that kind of money, she admits, and asks for help.

Yana Сegla is a writer, author of fairy tales, founder of the Maskarad magazine.