Alexander Anatolyevich Newar
- 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

Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 14 decisions awarding at least 22 days of administrative arrest and fines of at least 290 rubles in fines and at least 17 years of restriction or imprisonment. On July 5, 2023, she sentenced concrete carpenter Ruslan Shukalo to two years of imprisonment for a comment about Lukashenko under a post in Odnoklassniki about inflated prices for medicines. Judge Evgenia Melnik found him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenko) On June 22, 2023, on-site, I considered the case against Pinsk resident Kirill Borisov. The young man was accused of publicly insulting Alexander Lukashenko under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code. Sentence: two years of restriction of freedom with assignment to an open correctional facility (“chemistry”).
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