As the "Right to Defense" project learned, lawyers

U. Ladzimer Pylchanka

and

Viktar Matskevich

, who participate in politically motivated processes, were summoned to the qualification commission on issues of legal practice to undergo extraordinary re-certification.

  • Vladimir Pylchenko is the lawyer of police prisoners

    Maria Kalesnikova, Eduard Babaryka, Iryna Slavnikova, Kateryna Bakhlovava, Levon Khalotran and others.

  • Viktar Matskevich

    is

    the lawyer of

    Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Igor Alinevich, Akihir Gajeuski-Khanad, Yevhen Yushkevich, Viktar Babaryka, Ales Bialiatski.

In addition, lawyer

Dmitri Pigul

, who defended one of the participants in "Student Affairs", "Storks Fly", political prisoner Artyom Anishchuk and others, was summoned to the commission.

From the beginning of 2020 to September 2022, at least 38 lawyers have been deprived of their status as a result of the regular or extraordinary certification procedure.