On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Former political prisonersPardoned
Andrey Anatolyevich Vrublevsky
- Dissidentby since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by Dissidentby
- Viasna since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by the Viasna Human Rights Centre
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Sentences
Trial outcome 04.03.2025
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.Involved in repression
Anastasia Pavlovna Popko
MoreJudges13 december 1984
- Place:
- Minsk City Court
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 04.03.2025
Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev
MoreOverseers26 september 1981
- Place:
- IK-1
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from ~26.11.2024 to 20.03.2026
- Hometown:
- Minsk
- Birthday:
- 27.08.1971
- Was held in:
- IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
- Articles:
- Deliberate actions oriented at inciting racial, national, religious or other social hostility or discord on the basis of racial, national, religious, linguistic or other social membershipCreation of an extremist formation or participation in itInsulting the presidentInsulting of a government representative
- Marks:
- Financial transactions are blocked for people on the list, including money transfers to the detention centre in their name via bank or post.Control of a person's financial transactions, restrictions on crossing the Belarusian border, a 5-year ban on military service and public office after the conviction is expunged, etc.
Timeline
- 2024
~26.11.2024
Status change
In custody
- 2025
04.03.2025
Trial outcome 04.03.2025
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, Minsk City Court
~25.03.2025
Transfer
IK-1 — In custody
- 2026
20.03.2026
Status change
Pardoned