Leonid Stanislavovich Yasinovich
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Leonid Stanislavovich Yasinovich
Judge of the Central District Court of Minsk. As a representative of state authorities, he is involved in politically motivated persecution of Belarusian citizens. On May 31, 2005, he found opposition activists Pavel Seviarynets and Nikolai Statkevich guilty under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("Organization or active participation in group actions that violate public order") and sentenced each of them to three years of restricted freedom.
Judge of the Central District Court of Minsk. As a representative of state authorities, he is involved in politically motivated persecution of Belarusian citizens. On May 31, 2005, he found opposition activists Pavel Seviarynets and Nikolai Statkevich guilty under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("Organization or active participation in group actions that violate public order") and sentenced each of them to three years of restricted freedom.
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Nikolai is the leader of the unregistered Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada), a former presidential candidate, a retired lieutenant colonel, and a PhD in engineering. He was one of the founders of the Belarusian Military Association. He has been imprisoned multiple times for political reasons.
In the 1990s, he organized protests, including the Minsk Spring and the 1999 march.
In 2004, he led street protests against referendum fraud, after which he was sentenced in 2005 to three years of restricted freedom. Due to an amnesty announced in honor of the 60th anniversary of Victory Day, his sentence was reduced by one year. In 2010, he participated in the presidential campaign and protests in Minsk, after which he was arrested and sentenced in 2011 to six years in a maximum-security penal colony. In January 2012 and May 2015, his sentence was increased, resulting in his imprisonment. He was released in August 2015 as part of a pardon.
After his release, he continued his political activity and participation in street protests. In 2016, the Belarusian National Congress was founded on his initiative. In 2020, he spoke out in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya , the wife of another unregistered candidate, social blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky . Nikolai was detained again on May 31, 2020, on his way to her election picket. He initially received 15 days of administrative arrest but was never released. Subsequently, in December 2021, he was convicted of criminal charges of "organizing mass riots."
According to human rights activists, the defendants in the case are required to pay compensation in the amount of 29 million rubles.
On September 11, 2025, it was reported that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania. Among those released was Mikalai Statkevich. However, Mikalai refused to leave Belarus, and had to kick down the bus doors to do so. After waiting for several hours in the neutral zone, he returned to Belarus. It was only two months later that he was re-arrested. His exact whereabouts are unknown.