Vera Stramkouskaya

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Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
Вера Страмкоўская
Łacinka : Viera Stramkoŭskaja
Transl. : Vera Stramkoŭskaja
Transcr. : Vera Stramkouskaya
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Вера Стремковская
Transl .: Vera Stremkovskaja
Transcr .: Vera Stremkovskaya

Vera Stramkouskaja ( Belarusian Вера Валянцінаўна Страмкоўская ; born November 21, 1958 in Engels , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Belarusian lawyer and human rights activist.

Life

Stramkouskaja studied law at the Belarusian University in Minsk until 1980 . In the meantime she worked in the Ministry of Justice of the Belarusian SSR . After the political change in the Soviet Union and its collapse, she completed a degree at the Minsk Administration Academy , which she graduated in 1995.

Stramkouskaja has been working as a criminal defense lawyer since 1988 and represents in particular critics of the regime. She publicly speaks out against the death penalty and for better prison conditions .

In 1996 she worked as legal advisor for the presidential office, but resigned from office in protest against the policies of President Aljaksandr Lukashenka . She worked as the chief lawyer of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and in 1998 became chairwoman of the non-governmental human rights center in Minsk.

After she defended former members of parliament - in trials that were judged by observers to be politically motivated - and spoke about the human rights situation in Belarus at an International League for Human Rights event in 1998 , she was threatened with being denied a lawyer. Criminal proceedings have been brought against them repeatedly because of their professional activities. In addition, it was difficult for her to travel to human rights conferences several times.

In 1999 she was awarded the Human Rights Prize of the German Association of Judges and the Human Rights Prize of the American Bar Association . She has a son and lives in Gothenburg .

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SURNAME Stramkouskaya, Vera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stremkovskaya, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Engels , Soviet Union