Marina Alexandrovna Skalkovich

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18 december 1984

Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Marina Aleksandrovna Skalkovich supports the Lukashenko regime and politically motivated repressions in Belarus. Skalkovich is responsible for the fact that, as a judge of the Moskovsky District Court of the city of Brest, she handed down politically motivated sentences against representatives of civil society. As a result of her decisions, Belarusians who opposed the current regime in the country were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. In March 2023, she convicted a 58-year-old resident of Brest and sentenced him to one year and six months of imprisonment in a general regime colony, as well as a fine of 3,700 rubles for comments on the social network Facebook. On November 18, 2022, Skalkovich sentenced 29-year-old political prisoner Anton Yakovuk. She found him guilty under Article 368 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to a year of imprisonment in a general regime colony for commenting on the Internet. On February 16, 2022, for political inscriptions on the facades of a building, a resident of Brest was sentenced to two years in prison to serve in a general regime colony. She handed down numerous convictions in the “round dance case,” when Belarusians sang songs and danced in circles at an intersection in the center of Brest, expressing their disagreement with Lukashenko’s regime. As a result, many received long sentences of imprisonment or restriction of freedom. Thus, Marina Aleksandrovna Skalkovich is responsible for human rights violations and undermining the principles of the rule of law, as well as for promoting repression of representatives of civil society and the democratic opposition. Her work within the judiciary is focused on maintaining the position of the existing government, rather than on enforcing the law. Skalkovich's actions contribute to human rights violations, strengthening the power of Alexander Lukashenko and increasing politically motivated repression in the Republic of Belarus.