Judge of the City Court of Minsk. As chief judge, he dismissed the appeals against the sentences of political and civil society activists Irina Khalip, Sergei Martselev, Pavel Severinets, Dmitri Bondarenko, Dmitri Doronin, Sergei Kazakov, Vladimir Loban, Vitali Matsukevich, Evgeni Sekret and Oleg Fedorkevich. These trials were a clear violation of the Code of Criminal Procedure. On 24 Jan 2012 rejected the appeal of Ales Byalyatski regarding the sentence imposed on him by the Pervomaiski District Court of Minsk even though Byalyatski's trial was conducted in a way that was a clear violation of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Byalyatski was active in defending and providing assistance to those who suffered from repression in relation to the 19 Dec 2010 elections and the crackdown on civil society and democratic opposition.