[4] On November 24, 2020, the human rights organization Amnesty International named her a prisoner of conscience in the Bandarenka case.

[5][6][7] Boris Haretski, deputy chairman of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, said that the authorities were not fighting the problem, but the media, “They think that if the press does not write about Bandarenka, people will not find out about it.

[9][10][11] On December 16, 2020, patronage over the political prisoner was undertaken by Cem Özdemir, an MP of the Bundestag.

[14][15][16] Together with Darya Chultsova and Katsyaryna Andreeva, on April 9, 2021, she was awarded the Prize "Honour of Journalism" named after BelaPAN's founder Aleś Lipaj.

[17] On July 14, 2021, she got the CPJ International Press Freedom Award, alongside Anastasia Mejía, Matías Guente and Aye Chan Naing.