Oleg Viktorovich Efremenko
- 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

Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 33 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 22 days of administrative arrest, at least 3,128 rubles in fines, and at least 14 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed. In 2018, Tatiana Sevyarynets judged. She found the 50-year-old director of a private enterprise, Mikhail Zakharenko, guilty of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies (Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus), and imposed a sentence of 3 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to an open correctional facility (“chemistry”). The Ministry of Internal Affairs accused the man of “standing with clenched fists” and threatening violence. She sentenced Ruslan Cherkas to one and a half years of restriction of freedom in an open institution. The judge found that he had the intention of publicly insulting a government official, namely the inspector of the road patrol service of the road patrol service group of the State Inspectorate of the traffic police department of the Gantsevichi district executive committee, senior police lieutenant Volnich, on the social network “Odnoklassniki”, on the public page of the user “Olga Karach” insulted the latter in an indecent manner using profanity, degrading the authority, honor and dignity of the government representative Volnich in connection with the performance of his official duties. She sentenced Oleg Efremenko to imprisonment for a term of four and a half years, to be served in a general regime correctional colony, for tripping up an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. She also satisfied the claim of the injured employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who demanded monetary compensation for moral damage in the amount of 1,000 rubles.
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