Andrey Ivanovich Semchuk
- Dissidentby since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by Dissidentby
- Viasna since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by the Viasna Human Rights Centre

Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Dmitry Ivanovich Sosnovsky 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. Convicted in politically motivated cases. He sentenced Denis Voroby and Ivan Voroby under Article 370 of the Criminal Code for the fact that in the summer they tore off the red and green flag from the building of a rural club and damaged its fastening. Sosnovsky sentenced them to one year of imprisonment to be served in a colony under general regime conditions. He pronounced a verdict against Sergei Skok, Olga Klimkova and Maxim Sergeenko, accused under Part 2 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code and Article 368 of the Criminal Code for making six life-size dolls “with cynical inscriptions and images of high-ranking officials,” placing them on overpasses near the villages of Vilchitsy and Lyubuzh, taking photographs and dissemination of images on the Internet. Sosnovsky sentenced them to 3 to 3.5 years in prison.
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