Former political prisonersForced emigration

Boris Stanislavovich Leshkevich

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Boris was arrested in June 2021 as part of a criminal case opened over the events of August 2020. He was convicted of participating in a protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Grodno after the results of the presidential election were announced. Boris was sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional facility, he was released from custody in the courtroom before the verdict came into force.

Boris is characterized as a very kind and sympathetic person who always helps others and cannot refuse anyone.

Left Belarus.

In February 2025, as part of a special proceeding against Boris, a court hearing was held in absentia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.

Sentences

Trial outcome 17.09.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal date unknown
the sentence was upheld.
Regime change trial 25.02.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Angelica Igorevna Antonovich
Angelica Igorevna Antonovich
State prosecutors25 april 1991
Place:
court of Leninsky district of Grodno
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
17.09.2021
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Ruslan Aleksandrovich Gurin
Ruslan Aleksandrovich Gurin
Judges8 october 1980
Place:
court of Leninsky district of Grodno
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
17.09.2021
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Svetlana Petrovna Rachinskaya
Svetlana Petrovna Rachinskaya
Judges3 january 1984
Place:
court of Leninsky district of Grodno
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
25.02.2025
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Paul Ivanovich Kazakov
Paul Ivanovich Kazakov
Overseers11 june 1977
Place:
Turma №1
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Boris Stanislavovich Leshkevich
In custody:
Hometown:
Hrodna
Birthday:
20.03.1990
Number of children:
2
Articles:
Groups:
Parents of minors
Marks:

Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 09.06.2021

    Transfer

    Turma №1 — In custody

  3. 17.09.2021

    Trial outcome 17.09.2021

    2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, court of Leninsky district of Grodno

  4. 17.09.2021

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  5. ~17.10.2021

    Appeal date unknown

    the sentence was upheld

  6. ~01.11.2021

    Status change

    Forced emigration