Ivan Ignatyevich Kostyan

Number of repressed:

0

Birthday:

5 december 1988

Crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Ivan Ignatievich Kostyan is an employee of the judicial authorities involved in politically motivated repressions, in which thousands of peaceful demonstrators, several hundred journalists, human rights defenders and activists were detained and subjected to violence. He has secured convictions in politically motivated cases since 2017. He imposed fines on Belsat journalists for conducting live broadcasts. In December 2018, he fined a journalist from the newspaper Novy Chas, who was covering an action near the Russian Embassy. Fined Dmitry Dashkevich for speaking at Freedom Day. Tried participants in protests against integration with Russia. Conducts lectures at universities and enterprises on the topic “Anti-corruption.” It is under sanctions from Estonia from August 31, 2020 and under sanctions from Latvia from September 25, 2020.