Persecuted for political reasonsForced emigration

Margarita Alexandrovna Levchuk

Margarita is a Belarusian opera singer. In 2020, she took part in Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's election campaign and dealt with issues of culture and national heritage in Pavel Latushko's team and in the People's Anti-Crisis Directorate.

During a tour in Lithuania in the fall of 2020, Margarita began to be persecuted in Belarus, after which she was forced to remain abroad.

In March 2024, a criminal case was opened against Margarita as part of a special proceeding, and already in June of the same year, she was convicted in absentia for participating in an “extremist group” - “Rudobelskaya show-off”, sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment and a fine of 800 basic units.

Sentences

Trial outcome 24.06.2024
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
Appeal 20.09.2024
the sentence was upheld (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Svetlana Borisovna Kremenevskaya
Svetlana Borisovna Kremenevskaya
Judges16 july 1966
Place:
Brest Regional Court
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
24.06.2024
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Davydov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Davydov
Judges11 april 1967
Place:
Supreme Court
Type:
Appeal
Date:
20.09.2024
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Co-defendants

Margarita Alexandrovna Levchuk
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
16.04.1990
Number of children:
1
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Timeline

  1. 2020
  2. ~01.10.2020

    Status change

    Forced emigration

  3. 2024
  4. 24.06.2024

    Trial outcome 24.06.2024

    6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine (trial in absentia), Brest Regional Court

  5. 20.09.2024

    Appeal 20.09.2024

    the sentence was upheld (trial in absentia), Supreme Court