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Michael Grigorievich Yurchenko
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.
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.
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The district newspaper wrote about the basis for the criminal case: "being in a state of alcoholic intoxication in the center of the city of Lepel, near the administrative building, in full view of strangers, with the purpose of desecrating the state symbol of the Republic of Belarus - the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus, thereby expressing an offensive attitude towards the state symbols of the Republic of Belarus, he jumped up and tore out with his hands the wooden pole with the cloth of the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus attached to it. In doing so, he tore off the bracket from its attachment point and damaged the wooden pole, after which he took the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus with the pole to Volodarsky Street in Lepel, where he left it on the street and disappeared."
In fact, nothing happened to the state flag, only the flagpole and bracket were damaged. But the regional newspaper emphasizes that other people could have seen this "dissent".
According to the prosecution , while in Germany, the man posted several comments in a Telegram chat on August 28, September 7, and September 27, 2021, "containing obscene language" addressed to the heads of police departments.
Dmitry Polyakov later returned to his homeland and was arrested. He pleaded guilty. On January 29, the court found him guilty and sentenced him to eighteen months in a general regime penal colony. He was also fined 100 basic units (4,000 rubles) and ordered to pay a total of 5,500 rubles to three "victims."
An appeal court hearing will take place on April 16, 2024.
His health has deteriorated significantly behind bars. His vision has become particularly acute : he can see practically nothing in one eye , and only 50% of the vision in the other.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2025.
Vladimir is accused of posting photos from the August 2020 protest actions in Vitebsk on his social networks.
Vladimir was detained on December 14, 2022 after three more people connected with the ROK'I PUB gastropub were detained (the founders of the institution Ilya Kulman and Pavel Petrunin, the name and post of the third detainee are unknown).
As reported by «Vitebsk Viasna», according to pub visitors, one of the reasons for the detention could be a recent concert by a Belarusian singer performing under the pseudonym Iva Sativa (real name Yana Smolyaga, she is the wife of former political prisoner Levon Khalatryan). But, probably, the concert was an occasion to check the activities of the institution. As it turned out later, the Department of Financial Investigations opened a case for non-payment of taxes. Most likely, Bulavsky, as an organizer of concert activities in Vitebsk, was also detained as part of this case.
Convicted for a comment on the Internet insulting a representative of the authorities.
Alexander was convicted in August 2021 for allegedly posting an offensive comment on a post on the social media site Odnoklassniki on May 15, 2020, that contained a photo of a police officer in uniform.
In May 2023, Alexander was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.