Tatiana Mikhailovna Kostyuk

Number of repressed:

10

Administrative cases:

8

Birthday:

12 april 1969

Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Tatyana Mikhailovna Kostyuk supports Lukashenko’s regime and politically motivated repressions. It has secured convictions in politically motivated cases since at least 2017. She sentenced political prisoner Galina Kovaleva under Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code and sentenced her to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment to be served in a colony under general regime conditions. Galina was accused of coming from Minsk to Mogilev, where she posted texts and images degrading Lukashenko at public transport stops. She convicted journalist Alina Skrebunova, whom the police accused of creating three stories for the Belsat TV channel, although the girl is not a journalist for this TV channel, she only interviewed people, and the conversation itself cannot be considered media material. The Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs considered the stories about the ban on cycling on Leninskaya Street and the opening of Belarusian-language cafes “Bystry Los” and “Dranik-Feste” illegal. Kostyuk sentenced Alina to a fine of 30 basic units. She found Igor Mitenkov guilty under Article 369 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to two years of restriction of freedom without sending him to an open institution. Kostyuk also ordered the man to compensate the victim 1,000 rubles in material compensation for moral suffering for a comment on the social network.