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 Yuryevich Besau
- 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 date unknown
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.Involved in repression
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
MoreOverseers20 april 1978
- Place:
- SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik
MoreOverseers16 november 1982
- Place:
- SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from ~27.01.2025 to 20.03.2026
- Hometown:
- Minsk
- Birthday:
- 30.07.1973
- Was held in:
- IK №2, 213800, Bobruysk, ul. Sikorskogo, 1
- Articles:
- Calls for actions aimed at the detriment of the external security of the Republic of BelarusDeliberate actions oriented at inciting racial, national, religious or other social hostility or discord on the basis of racial, national, religious, linguistic or other social membership
- 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
- 2025
~27.01.2025
Transfer
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody
~31.07.2025
Trial outcome date unknown
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions
02.09.2025
Transfer
IK-2 — In custody
- 2026
20.03.2026
Status change
Pardoned