Alyaksandr Lukashenka has signed Decree No. 209 dismissing two judges for ‘misconduct incompatible with being in the public service’.
Among those dismissed was Tatsiana Charkas (she served as chair of the Partizansky district court of Minsk) and Alyaksandr Shylin (served as chairman of the Svisloch district court of the Hrodna region).
Tatsiana Charkas is in the EU “black list”. The ex-judge got there in 2011 after the trials for ‘Ploshcha 2010’.
In 2011, Charkas was a judge in the Frunzensky District Court of Minsk. She sentenced the opposition activist Alyaksandr Atroshchankau to four years in prison.
According to Alyaksandr Lukashenka, over the past years, six judges have been imprisoned for corruption.