# Alesia Parkhomenka threatens to expose channels of aid to political prisoners unless journalist Katsiaryna Andreyeva returns her money

- URL: https://syn.by/en/state/human-rights/alesia-parkhomenka-threatens-expose-channels-aid/
- Published: 2026-11-09T19:30:29+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T05:05:03+00:00
- Section: Human Rights
- Language: en
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/gosudarstvo/prava-cheloveka/alesya-parkhomenko-prigrozila-raskryt-kanaly.md
- BE edition: https://syn.by/dziarzhava/pravy-chalaveka/parchomienka-pryhrazila-raskryc-kanaly-dapamohi.md

> Parkhomenka calls herself Belarus's "democratic ambassador" in Cyprus. She gave Andreyeva three days to return money that, by her account, she had passed on to support the journalist's family.

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Alesia Parkhomenka, who calls herself Belarus's "democratic ambassador" in Cyprus, has made threats against Katsiaryna Andreyeva, a journalist and former political prisoner. According to independent Belarusian media, she is threatening to expose the channels through which money flows to support political prisoners and their families.

Parkhomenka wrote: "So here is my offer: she returns my money, or I will make the receipts public and others will suffer through her fault." She gave three days to meet the demand.

Publishing such receipts could reveal details about people who help prisoners and their relatives, and put them at risk.

According to Parkhomenka, she passed on money to support Andreyeva's family while Andreyeva spent five and a half years in prison. Parkhomenka represents the movement "Democratic Embassy of Belarus in Cyprus". She began cooperating with the People's Embassies in October 2023, and in June 2025 the cooperation ended: she was stripped of her status as a representative and her access to the network's labor resources was closed. After that she appointed herself representative of the Democratic, rather than the People's, Embassy.

Parkhomenka herself says she secured a resolution in Cyprus for a whole category of people. In May 2024 Cyprus decided to give Belarusian citizens living there preferential conditions for obtaining documents. Of the officials she said: "Let's just say I wore them out."

The trigger for the conflict was Andreyeva's reaction: on social media she backed the outrage over informers. Andreyeva was released on 19 March, having spent 1950 days in prison, as Belarusian media reported in July 2026. She was detained on 15 November 2020 while streaming from the Square of Changes. She later returned to the profession.

A new criminal case has now been opened against the journalist in Belarus. Andreyeva said so on her Facebook page.

In her first interview after her release she said: "If I had been given a choice, I would have stayed in Belarus." Her husband Ihar Ilyash, she says, is in Babruisk penal colony No. 2.

The outrage over informers is linked to the story of the blogger Krystsina Vasina. At the end of 2025 she returned to Belarus from Vilnius, where she had lived for several years, and was jailed after public denunciations. According to a Belarusian outlet that the Belarusian authorities have designated "extremist", the bloggers Ksenia Pleshkova, Siarhei Petrukhin and Alesia Parkhomenka tried to draw the security forces' attention to her alleged involvement with Tsikhanouskaya's office.