Juliana Viktorovna Shcherba

Juliana Viktorovna Shcherba

She handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where she imposed punishment in the form of a fine in a total amount of at least 1,743 rubles and in the form of administrative arrest for at least 15 days. Convicted 47-year-old Vyacheslav Kulba under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code for publicly insulting Lukashenko. Vyacheslav personally made an entry in the book of comments and suggestions of the Belarusneft gas station containing information of an offensive nature: “There are no complaints. I don’t understand the employees of your gas station who support the regime of the usurper Lukashenko.” Shcherba was sentenced to two years in prison without being sent to an open correctional facility. She sentenced Svetlana Antipkina, a kindergarten teacher of the first qualification category, and found her guilty under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. After the arrest of Sergei Tikhanovsky on May 30, 2020, Svetlana commented on a message on the Odnoklassniki social network. There was posted a photograph of senior police lieutenant of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Grodno, Vladimir Kozlovsky, who was recognized as a victim in the case. According to the prosecution, the comment was derogatory and contained an obscene form of speech. She also responded to the message in the group with the reaction “cool” and thereby posted it on her Odnoklassniki page. Shcherba sentenced Svetlana to 1.5 years of restriction of freedom without referral to the IWOT and 1,500 rubles in material compensation for moral damage to a law enforcement officer. Convicted Dmitry Neshta under Article 295-3 of the Criminal Code - Illegal actions in relation to objects whose destructive effect is based on the use of flammable substances and Article 289 of the Criminal Code - Act of terrorism. According to the investigation, the accused Neshta, on September 26, 2020, while in a garage in Baranavichy, illegally produced three “Molotov cocktails”, the action of which is based on the use of flammable substances, stored them in the above-mentioned garage, and subsequently moved them to a parking lot located near one from military units, where he used them in carrying out an act of terrorism. He, being near a parking lot, in order to influence military personnel of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus of one of the military units, wanting to cause them to refuse to perform official duties to assist law enforcement officers in ensuring law and order during mass riots in the territory Baranovichey, having the intention of causing grave consequences through arson in the form of destruction of cars belonging to military personnel located in the above-mentioned parking lot, all property in the amount of 59,039 rubles 78 kopecks, acting in a generally dangerous manner, threw three Molotov cocktails with lit wicks at the cars belonging to to the servicemen, after which, making sure that they had flared up, he fled the scene. Dmitry was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment to be served in a correctional colony under enhanced security conditions with deprivation of his military rank. Dmitry is recognized as a political prisoner.