Igor Anatolevich Zhitko

Number of repressed:

5

Administrative cases:

20

Birthday:

3 september 1979

Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 12 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 5 days of administrative arrest, at least 1,587 rubles in fines, and at least 6.5 years of restriction or imprisonment were imposed. On June 17, 2022, he sentenced 65-year-old political prisoner activist Elena Gnauk to three and a half years in a general regime colony and a fine of 3,200 rubles for “slander” against Lukashenko and “discrediting” the Republic of Belarus. On September 15, 2020, the petition of 242 residents of Pruzhany was not satisfied. Activists sought the recall of Alexander Levchuk, a deputy in the House of Representatives. According to townspeople, he does not protect the rights of Pruzhany residents, did not react in any way to the illegal actions of security forces during the dispersal of peaceful protests, and ignored reports in social networks and the media about violations during the presidential elections. He convicted Lyudmila Tsarana for commenting on the Internet under Article 188 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus - “Slander” and sentenced her to 1.5 years of restriction of freedom without sending her to an open correctional facility and decided to pay compensation for moral damage to the victim policeman in the amount of 1,000 rubles. He found Yuri Zelevich guilty under Article 188 of the Criminal Code and announced the man’s sentence: 1.5 years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.