Alena Mikalayeuna ANANICH

Deputy President of the Pervomayski District Court of the city of Minsk. Former judge at the Pervomayski Rayon Court of the city of Minsk. She was directly involved in the judicial repression of the peaceful demonstrators on 19 December 2010. On 20 December 2010 she sentenced civil society activists Paval Shalamitski, Mikhail Piatrenka, Yauhen Batura and Tatsiana Grybouskaya to 10 days in jail, as well as Tornike Berydze to 11 days in jail. Her way of conducting the trial was a clear violation of the Code of Criminal Procedure. She sustained the use of evidence and testimonies irrelevant to the accused.

Alena Ananich is a Belarusian judge who has served in the Minsk City Court since 2015, having been appointed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka. She has issued numerous politically motivated rulings against the opponents of the Belarusian authorities, including with particularly high prison sentences: Yauhen Yushkevich – 11 years; Vital Brahiniets (lawyer of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alies Bialatski) – 8 years; Viachaslau Kandyba – 7 years; and Siarhiei Nikitsin – 6 years. She also sentenced in absentia an opposition activist abroad, Stanislau Lupanosau, formerly an officer of the Main Department for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to 18 years in prison. She is therefore responsible for serious violations of human rights or the repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Belarus.

Judge of the Minsk City Court

Alena Ananich est un juge biélorusse au tribunal de la ville de Minsk depuis 2015, nommée par Aliaksandr Loukachenka. Elle a rendu de nombreuses décisions motivées par des considérations politiques, y compris des peines d’emprisonnement particulièrement élevées, à l’encontre d’opposants aux autorités biélorusses, à savoir: Yauhen Yushkevich – 11 ans; Vital Brahiniets (avocat du lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix Alies Bialatski) – 8 ans; Viachaslau Kandyba – 7 ans; Siarhiei Nikitsin – 6 ans. Elle a également condamné par défaut un militant de l’opposition à l’étranger, Stanislau Lupanosau, ancien officier de la direction générale de la lutte contre la criminalité organisée et la corruption (GUBOPiK) du ministère de l’intérieur, à 18 ans de prison. Elle est donc responsable de graves violations des droits de l’homme ou de la répression de la société civile et de l’opposition démocratique en Biélorussie