Alexander Aleksandrovich Semenchuk
Alexander Aleksandrovich Semenchuk
Number of repressed: 52
Administrative cases: 45
Date of birth: 12 april 1983
Categories: Judges

Alexander Aleksandrovich Semenchuk is involved in politically motivated repressions in the Republic of Belarus. Semenchuk is responsible for the fact that, as a judge of the Leninsky District Court of the city of Brest, for a long period of time he passed politically motivated sentences against representatives of civil society. As a result of his decisions, Belarusians who opposed the current regime in the country were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. In particular, in 2011 he tried participants in silent protests, and in 2017, participants in non-parasite protests. In 2018, he tried residents of Brest who opposed the construction of a battery plant. Among others, Semenchuk condemned the following citizens: Brest local historian, editor of the newspaper “Church” Igor Baranovsky, Belsat journalists Ales Levchuk and Milana Kharitonova, human rights activist Roman Kislyak, bloggers Sergei Petrukhin and Alexander Kabanov, teacher Lyudmila Karchevskaya, anarchist Alexander Kozlyanko, politician Nikolai Statkevich , journalist Maxim Khlebts and pensioner Elena Gnauk. Thus, Alexander Aleksandrovich Semenchuk is responsible for human rights violations and undermining the principles of the rule of law, as well as for promoting repression against representatives of civil society and the democratic opposition. His work within the judiciary is focused on maintaining the position of the existing government, rather than on enforcing the law. Semenchuk’s actions contribute to human rights violations, strengthening the power of Alexander Lukashenko and increasing politically motivated repression in the Republic of Belarus.

Alexander Aleksandrovich Semenchuk is involved in politically motivated repressions in the Republic of Belarus. Semenchuk is responsible for the fact that, as a judge of the Leninsky District Court of the city of Brest, for a long period of time he passed politically motivated sentences against representatives of civil society. As a result of his decisions, Belarusians who opposed the current regime in the country were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. In particular, in 2011 he tried participants in silent protests, and in 2017, participants in non-parasite protests. In 2018, he tried residents of Brest who opposed the construction of a battery plant. Among others, Semenchuk condemned the following citizens: Brest local historian, editor of the newspaper “Church” Igor Baranovsky, Belsat journalists Ales Levchuk and Milana Kharitonova, human rights activist Roman Kislyak, bloggers Sergei Petrukhin and Alexander Kabanov, teacher Lyudmila Karchevskaya, anarchist Alexander Kozlyanko, politician Nikolai Statkevich , journalist Maxim Khlebts and pensioner Elena Gnauk. Thus, Alexander Aleksandrovich Semenchuk is responsible for human rights violations and undermining the principles of the rule of law, as well as for promoting repression against representatives of civil society and the democratic opposition. His work within the judiciary is focused on maintaining the position of the existing government, rather than on enforcing the law. Semenchuk’s actions contribute to human rights violations, strengthening the power of Alexander Lukashenko and increasing politically motivated repression in the Republic of Belarus.

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Political prisoners
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In custody: ~479 days
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
Address for letters: SIZO-7, Brest, Sovetskih Pogranichnikov 37, 224030
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Trial outcome 17.02.2025
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Political prisoners
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In custody: 485 days
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
Address for letters: No information
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According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped their hands, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and went out onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.

Trial outcome 07.10.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.12.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Timur Aleksandrovich Lazko
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In custody: ~483 days
folder Categories of cases: Donate
Hometown: Pribolovichi
Date of birth: 15.05.1983
Address for letters: No information
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On February 2, 2024, a telegram channel close to the Brest GUBOPiK published a repentant video with Timur Lozko.

In the video, security forces showed how men with shields and weapons, in full uniform, burst into the house. This is followed by footage where Timur Aleksandrovich, with his hands behind his back, says that he was found with subscriptions to Nekhta, and that he also donated to this telegram channel. The man also says that he works at Lode as an anesthesiologist and resuscitator.

On the Internet you can find that Lozko was detained back in October 2020 (and in solidarity with him, other doctors in Brest went out to protest with the inscriptions “I/we are Timur”). And during the referendum in February 2022, he was detained again, and under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offences, “Illegal picketing,” he first served in a temporary detention facility, and then received a fine of 50 b.v.

Trial outcome 09.08.2024
8 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 50 basic values fine.
Appeal 01.11.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Stanislav Aleksandrovich Filimonov
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In custody: 1663 days
Hometown: Odessa, Ukraine
Date of birth: 14.12.1999
Address for letters: IK №3
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Stanislav, a Ukrainian citizen, was arrested in May 2021 in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against election fraud that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”

Trial outcome 08.11.2021
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 100 basic values fine.
Appeal 14.01.2022
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Political prisoners
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In custody: ~444 days
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 25.02.1984
Address for letters: SIZO-7, Brest, Sovetskih Pogranichnikov 37, 224030
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Dmitry was a witness in the case of Brest political prisoners, bloggers Sergei Petrukhin and Alexander Kabanov, who were sentenced to three years in a general regime penal colony in April of this year. As the activist told Brest human rights defenders, a criminal case was opened against him for refusing to answer questions from the judge who was considering the case of Petrukhin and Kabanov, since he did not show the judge's service ID.

Released on 26.02.2022.

On December 11, 16 and 17, 2024, new hearings of Dmitry's case took place in the Leninsky District Court of Brest under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Dmitry was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment.

Trial outcome 21.09.2021
3 months of arrest.
Trial outcome 17.12.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 21.02.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Political prisoners
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In custody: 1645 days
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 29.04.1999
Address for letters: IK-14, 222125, Minsk region, s.n.p. Novosady, ul. Mira 1A
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Ruslan was first detained on August 10, 2020, during a protest in Brest against falsifications in the presidential elections. After a brutal beating, he was hospitalized and then sentenced to 7 days of administrative arrest. A criminal case was later opened against him, but he left the country during the investigation.

Upon returning to Belarus, Ruslan attempted to cross the border into the European Union, but was detained. In November 2021, he was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”

In July 2024, he was convicted again, this time for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution.” This article is used to try prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, based on fictitious violations.

Trial outcome 08.11.2021
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 14.01.2022
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 01.07.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Elena Petrovna Gnauk
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In custody: 1424 days
Hometown: Psyschevo
Date of birth: 16.03.1957
Guardian: Alina Kharisova
Address for letters: IK-24, ul. Proizvodstvennaya, 44, g.p. Zarechye, Rechitsky r-n, Gomel obl., 247526
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Since 2020, Elena has been subjected to systematic persecution for political reasons: she has been detained and arrested under administrative articles 17 times, and has been fined a total of 173 basic units. Her home has been searched several times.

In May 2021, Elena was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened after a protest on September 13, 2020 in Brest, where participants sang songs and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them. According to the prosecution, the protest disrupted the operation of transport. She was sentenced to restriction of freedom without being sent to an institution.

In September of the same year, Elena was convicted again for “insulting Lukashenko.” The combined sentences amounted to three years of “house arrest.”

In January 2022, she was arrested for "violating the serving of a sentence" and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. However, she was never released - she was transferred to a pretrial detention center as part of a new criminal case initiated for slandering Lukashenko and discrediting the Republic of Belarus. In June, she was sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.

In April 2023, Elena was convicted again under the article "malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration." This article is often applied to prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, for fictitious violations.

It is known that physical and psychological pressure is constantly applied to Elena. She is regularly placed in solitary confinement and PKT, deprived of almost all parcels, calls, visits, and her merchandise allowance was reduced from three basic units to one.

In February 2025, Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk reported that Elena had been placed in the PKT again: “After several weeks in the punishment cell, she was transferred to the PKT. It is 99% likely that Article 411 will be fabricated against her again.”

Trial outcome 07.05.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, unknown rubles of compensation.
Appeal 09.07.2021
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 03.09.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 02.11.2021
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 17.06.2022
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 3200 rubles of compensation.
Appeal 09.08.2022
the sentence was upheld.
Final verdict by partial addition:
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 3200 rubles of compensation.
Trial outcome 28.04.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 07.07.2023
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Yuri Andreevich Kostyuk
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In custody: 1633 days
Hometown: Svetlogorsk
Date of birth: 06.12.1997
Address for letters: Turma №1, Grodno, Kirova 1, 230023
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The first time, Yuri was convicted for, according to the charges, in September 2020, while walking with friends near the Molodezhnaya Hotel, during a conversation he tugged at the national flag, which eventually fell.

In November 2021, his sentence was changed and he was sent to a penal colony.

In January 2022, he was released, having fully served his sentence.

On February 15, 2022, Yuri was detained again in a criminal case opened under the article "assistance to extremist activity." He received administrative arrest, during which KGB officers visited him. As a result of the beatings, he was suspected of having broken ribs. The criminal case was not closed.

In May 2022, he was detained again in Russia due to a wanted list, and in October of the same year he was extradited to Belarus, although the extradition case was formally closed on September 26, 2022.

In January 2023, Yuri was convicted again for helping other political prisoners receive aid from foundations. At the trial, he pleaded not guilty and refused to testify.

In May 2024, his sentence was increased and he was transferred to prison until the end of his term.

Trial outcome 17.11.2020
1 year restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 58 rubles of compensation.
Regime change trial 23.11.2021
1 month 16 days of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 13.01.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 21.03.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Regime change trial 27.05.2024
prison regime until the end of the term.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
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It is known that Sergei Gorun was detained at the end of October last year. In the "repentant video," the man said that he participated in the 2020 protests, threw paving stones towards the security forces and blocked the road with a bench.

Trial outcome 17.02.2025
unknown.
Potential persecutions
Bank of letters 0
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
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Trial outcome 17.02.2025
unknown.
Potential persecutions
Bank of letters 0
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 23.04.2001
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Trial outcome 16.01.2025
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~285 days
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 12.03
Was in: SIZO-7SIZO-7, Brest, Sovetskih Pogranichnikov 37, 224030
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Trial outcome 24.12.2024
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 14.03.2025
unknown.
Potential persecutions
Bank of letters 0
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
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Trial outcome 24.12.2024
unknown.
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Bank of letters 0
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 13.09.2002
Family members: Jacob Nikolaevich Deneyko
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He was convicted along with his twin brother for participating in protests in Brest.

Trial outcome 24.12.2024
unknown.
Potential persecutions
Bank of letters 0
folder Categories of cases: Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 13.09.2002
Family members: Paul Nikolaevich Deneyko
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He was convicted along with his twin brother for participating in protests in Brest.

Trial outcome 24.12.2024
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