Former political prisonersForced emigration

Lizaveta Dzmitryyeuna Yushkevich

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

In November 2021, Lizaveta was detained in a criminal case over her participation in the protests after the 2020 presidential election and placed in a pre-trial detention center, where she spent four months.

In March 2022, Lizaveta was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the article "Organisation and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for taking part in these protests.

Lizaveta later left Belarus.

In October 2024, a court hearing in absentia on toughening her punishment was held under special proceedings.

Sentences

Trial outcome 04.03.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal date unknown
the sentence was upheld.
Regime change trial 28.10.2024
unknown (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Yuri Viktorovich Mashketov
Yuri Viktorovich Mashketov
Judges19 may 1988
Place:
court of the Moscow district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
04.03.2022
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Victoria Valeryevna Shabunya
Victoria Valeryevna Shabunya
Judges27 february 1974
Place:
Court of the Central District of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
28.10.2024
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Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Overseers20 april 1978
Place:
SIZO-1
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Lizaveta Dzmitryyeuna Yushkevich
In custody:
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
13.02.2000
Was held in:
SIZO-1, Minsk 2 Volodarskogo St., 220030
Articles:
Marks:

Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 01.11.2021

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 — In custody

  3. 2022
  4. 04.03.2022

    Trial outcome 04.03.2022

    3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, court of the Moscow district of Minsk

  5. 04.03.2022

    Status change

    Probation

  6. ~15.04.2022

    Appeal date unknown

    the sentence was upheld, Minsk City Court

  7. ~01.07.2022

    Status change

    Forced emigration