Alexander Sergeevich Mishurov

Number of repressed:

8

Administrative cases:

14

Aleksandr Sergeevich Mishurov is involved in politically motivated repressions in the Republic of Belarus. Mishurov is responsible for the fact that, as a judge of the Lida District Court, he issues politically motivated sentences against representatives of civil society. In his judicial practice, Aleksandr Mishurov considers not only administrative cases, but also criminal ones. As a result of his decisions, Belarusians who oppose the regime in force in the country were sentenced to various prison terms. In particular, on December 20, 2022, Mishurov sentenced a 55-year-old therapist of the emergency room of the Lida City Hospital to three years and six months in a penal colony under enhanced security conditions for comments and likes that he left on social networks in 2020. Also on September 27, 2022, the judge sentenced political prisoner Valery Tumilevich to imprisonment for one year and six months in a general regime penal colony for messages in one of the Telegram chats. In June 2023, Alexander Mishurov sentenced a former police officer to three years of restricted freedom for messages on a social network. Thus, Mishurov Alexander Sergeyevich is responsible for human rights violations and undermining the principles of the rule of law, as well as for facilitating repression against representatives of civil society and the democratic opposition. His work within the judicial system is focused on supporting the positions of the existing government, rather than on upholding the law. Mishurov's actions contribute to human rights violations, strengthening the power of Alexander Lukashenko and intensifying politically motivated repression in the Republic of Belarus.