Julia Nikolaevna Vershinina

Number of repressed:

5

Administrative cases:

28

Birthday:

11 may 1985

Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 18 decisions awarding at least 118 days of administrative arrest and at least 6 years of restriction or imprisonment. On July 4, 2022, she sentenced Alexei Chekel, who was accused of insulting the President of Belarus (Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code). She considered the fact that the accused had a dependent minor son as a mitigating circumstance. Vershinina found Chekel’s guilt proven and sentenced him to imprisonment in a general regime colony for a period of one and a half years. On January 10, 2023, she convicted Vitaly Ryzhansky under Part 1 of Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. He was initially accused of insulting a government official (Article 369 of the Criminal Code), insulting Lukashenko (Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code) and slandering Lukashenko (Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code). It is not known for certain under what article he was ultimately convicted. Sentence: 2 years imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.