Siarhei Ryhoravich Yukhno
- Dissidentby since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by Dissidentby
- Viasna since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by the Viasna Human Rights Centre

Head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (now Commander of the Internal Troops) Employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus (2007-2014) 1997-2005 - Serviceman of Military Unit 01549 (1997) Service in law enforcement, beating civilians, damaging property. Client to Alexander Lukashenko. Worked in the personal security department (inner circle) of the Presidential Security Service. Former head of the Almaz special forces unit. Led the beating of presidential candidate Alexander Kozulin (March 2, 2006). Shot at Yuri Radzivil's car (2006). Participated in the beating of presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev and the dispersal of a peaceful protest on December 19, 2010, in Minsk. O'Petit and his son, Igor Karpenkov, broke windows at the Nemiga café (2020). As an official, the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he intentionally committed actions that clearly exceeded the rights and powers granted to him in his position, involving the use of special means. Specifically, using a rubber truncheon (PR-73), he smashed the glass entrance door of the O'Petit café, without legal grounds. He led an armed group that beat demonstrators! As the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, that is, an official, acting in a group with his subordinates, and exceeding his official authority, on October 13, 2020, he openly kidnapped a person at 3 Ulyanovskaya Street, Apt. 29 citizen M.L. Khoroshin, illegally transported him to the Pervomaysky District Department of Internal Affairs in Minsk, where he tortured the victim. He committed deportation, illegal detention, enslavement, mass or systematic extrajudicial executions, kidnappings followed by disappearances, torture, or acts of cruelty based on the race, nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs, or religion of the civilian population.
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