Maria Vyacheslavovna Erokhin
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Maria Vyacheslavovna Erokhin
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 261 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 2,679 days of administrative arrest were imposed, and at least 86,082 rubles in fines. He is among the top ten judges in terms of the number of politically motivated decisions. Participated in political repression since at least 2016. She sentenced the neurologist to 4 years in prison. Convicted a 78-year-old pensioner for “picketing by raising her hand and laying one tulip.” According to the prosecution, she thereby violated the law on mass events. Since this was her repeated detention, Erokhin fined her 4,350 rubles. She judged the volunteers of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s initiative group. Ignores statements by suspects about torture and abuse at the police department On November 12, it issued a ruling against journalist Oleg Gruzdilovich. She sentenced the woman to 25 days of arrest, despite the fact that at the trial she stated threats of torture. Human Rights Center “Viasna” wrote that at the beginning of June 2021, they came to a Minsk resident with a search, took away her equipment, money from her wallet and other valuables. Afterwards, the woman was taken in a minibus with license plates 9471 IK-7 to the Frunzenskoe district police department, where the police threatened her that they would use a stun gun and hold her nose with a stapler if she did not sign the protocols drawn up against her. The woman asked them to read the protocols out loud because she had poor vision, and they did not allow her to take glasses with her. She was refused and in order to avoid torture, she was forced to submit.
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 261 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 2,679 days of administrative arrest were imposed, and at least 86,082 rubles in fines. He is among the top ten judges in terms of the number of politically motivated decisions. Participated in political repression since at least 2016. She sentenced the neurologist to 4 years in prison. Convicted a 78-year-old pensioner for “picketing by raising her hand and laying one tulip.” According to the prosecution, she thereby violated the law on mass events. Since this was her repeated detention, Erokhin fined her 4,350 rubles. She judged the volunteers of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s initiative group. Ignores statements by suspects about torture and abuse at the police department On November 12, it issued a ruling against journalist Oleg Gruzdilovich. She sentenced the woman to 25 days of arrest, despite the fact that at the trial she stated threats of torture. Human Rights Center “Viasna” wrote that at the beginning of June 2021, they came to a Minsk resident with a search, took away her equipment, money from her wallet and other valuables. Afterwards, the woman was taken in a minibus with license plates 9471 IK-7 to the Frunzenskoe district police department, where the police threatened her that they would use a stun gun and hold her nose with a stapler if she did not sign the protocols drawn up against her. The woman asked them to read the protocols out loud because she had poor vision, and they did not allow her to take glasses with her. She was refused and in order to avoid torture, she was forced to submit.
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Oleg is a journalist for Radio Svaboda, previously worked for the Znamya Yunosti newspaper, and was one of the founders of the RID news agency. In the summer of 2020, he actively covered the protests in Belarus and conducted live streams. In August, he lost his Foreign Ministry accreditation along with other journalists from foreign media outlets.
On July 16, 2021, he was detained during a large-scale search of independent journalists' homes. He was released ten days later, remaining a suspect. On December 23 of that year, security forces again raided his home and took him into custody on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order or actively participating in them."
In March 2022, the court found Oleg guilty, declaring that he participated in unauthorized protests during which Minsktrans calculated damages of 56,000 rubles.
In September 2022, the journalist was released as part of a pardon.