Andrey Leonidovich Leshchenko

Number of repressed:

77

Birthday:

23 april 1972

Judge of the Brest Regional Court. Acting Deputy Chairman of the Court. Andrei Leonidovich Leshchenko is an employee of the judicial system of the Republic of Belarus, supporting the Lukashenko regime and politically motivated repressions in Belarus. Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, according to which at least 3 days of administrative arrest were imposed. In his work, he mainly considered complaints against politically motivated sentences of lower courts. These complaints were left unsatisfied. On February 10, 2023, he sentenced Dmitry Stepanov, accusing him of creating an extremist group or participating in it under Part 1 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code, sentencing him with a punishment of four years of restriction of freedom in a general regime.