Artyom Alexandrovich Ershov
- Case categories:
- Special proceedings (trials in absentia)
- Hometown:
- Dzerzhinsk

Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 19 decisions awarding at least 20 days of administrative arrest and fines of at least 2,521 rubles in fines and at least 8.5 years of restriction or imprisonment. Decided to award a fine of 920 rubles to Olga Chaichyts for conducting an online broadcast of a protest rally in the city of Borisov. In 2020, a judge rejected the applicants' complaint regarding the recall of House of Representatives member Aleksandar Sarakacs. He found Artem Ershov guilty and sentenced him to one year and six months of restriction of freedom without being sent to a correctional facility, as well as to compensation for legal costs of 305 rubles, under Art. 188 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (slander), for allegedly libelous leaflets about the coach of the national SAMBO team, in which the following was written: “Dear tenants! One of the regime’s watchdogs, Rybak Yuri Yakovlevich, lives in our house. The bandit is putting pressure on athletes who dare to speak the truth about the violence and lawlessness that reigned in our country.”
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