Michael Grigorievich Yurchenko

Number of repressed:

9

Administrative cases:

36

Birthday:

17 august 1979

Mikhail Grigoryevich Yurchenko is involved in politically motivated repressions in the Republic of Belarus. Yurchenko is responsible for the fact that, as a judge of the Pervomaisky District Court of the city of Vitebsk, he pronounces numerous politically motivated sentences against representatives of civil society of the Republic of Belarus. In judicial practice, Mikhail Grigorievich Yurchenko considers not only administrative cases, but also criminal ones. As a result of his decisions, fines totaling no less than 7,818 rubles and administrative arrests totaling no less than 108 days have already been issued, and opponents of the current regime in the country have also been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. In particular, on September 17, 2021, he sentenced political prisoner Sergei Dumava to 9 years and 15 days of imprisonment in a high-security colony. On September 30, 2020, Yurchenko found the parents of oppositionist Pavel Sevyarynts, Tatyana and Konstantin Sevyarynts, guilty of violating the law on mass events. The judge regarded the waving of a white-red-white flag on the loggia of the Severintsev family as unauthorized picketing. First, the judge considered Tatyana's administrative case, and then Konstantin's. Yurchenko fined Tatyana 25 basic units and issued a warning to her husband. On September 14, Mikhail Yurchenko sentenced Evgeny Gukov to one year and ten months of imprisonment in a general regime colony for comments under videos in a telegram group. Thus, Mikhail Grigorievich Yurchenko is responsible for human rights violations and undermining the principles of the rule of law, as well as for promoting repression against representatives of civil society and the democratic opposition. His work within the judiciary is focused on maintaining the position of the existing government, rather than on enforcing the law. Yurchenko's actions contribute to human rights violations, strengthening the power of Alexander Lukashenko and increasing politically motivated repression in the Republic of Belarus.