Andrey Leonidovich Sidorenko
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Andrey Leonidovich Sidorenko
An accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Sidorenko Andrei Leonidovich is an employee of the security forces involved in politically motivated repressions, during which thousands of peaceful protesters, several hundred journalists, human rights defenders and activists were detained and subjected to violence.
He acted as a state prosecutor in the case of a woman with claustrophobia, convicted of violence against a riot police officer. According to the prosecution, on September 27, 2020, during a Sunday march, during which security forces sprayed tear gas and used flash-bang grenades against civilians, the defendant grabbed one of the riot police officers by the hand, thereby obstructing his work.
An accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Sidorenko Andrei Leonidovich is an employee of the security forces involved in politically motivated repressions, during which thousands of peaceful protesters, several hundred journalists, human rights defenders and activists were detained and subjected to violence.
He acted as a state prosecutor in the case of a woman with claustrophobia, convicted of violence against a riot police officer. According to the prosecution, on September 27, 2020, during a Sunday march, during which security forces sprayed tear gas and used flash-bang grenades against civilians, the defendant grabbed one of the riot police officers by the hand, thereby obstructing his work.
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Larisa was first arrested on September 27, 2020, and convicted of an administrative offense. After the trial, she suffered a seizure and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Larisa suffers from depressive anxiety disorder and claustrophobia.
On August 6, 2021, security forces came to her workplace, conducted a search, and after interrogation, placed her in a temporary detention facility for three days. After this period, she was charged with violence or threat of violence against police officers for participating in a Sunday march on September 27, 2020, in Gomel, during which security forces used tear gas and stun grenades. According to the prosecution, Larisa "used brute force to grab a security officer by the arm, move him, and thereby obstruct his work."
In December 2021, Larisa was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in May 2023, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.
Sergei was arrested on March 23, 2021, for standing up for his mother when OMON and GUBOPiK were violently detaining her in her own apartment. He was convicted of "threatening to use violence against an internal affairs officer."
In 2024, on the day of his release, he was rearrested, and in July of that year he was re-convicted under the article “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution” - an article under which prisoners are tried for refusing to cooperate with the administration and for fictitious violations.