Former political prisonersPardoned

Evgeny Evgenievich Volykhin

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Evgeny first studied in Russia, at the Magnitogorsk Industrial and Pedagogical College, and then at the Belarusian Commercial University of Management. Evgeny has a minor son.

Volykhin runs his own business. For over 20 years, he has been manufacturing and installing PVC windows, balcony frames, and other similar structures.

On social media, the man expresses nostalgia for the USSR, reposts about the "heroes of Novorossiya," and criticizes the Russian authorities. In his comments, he calls Ukrainian journalist Gordon a condom, Ukrainians "khokhols," and so on, and Zelensky a drug addict. However, his pages also contained criticism of Lukashenko.

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).

Sentences

Trial outcome date unknown
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Involved in repression

Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Overseers20 april 1978
Place:
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik
Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik
Overseers16 november 1982
Place:
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Evgeny Evgenievich Volykhin
In custody:
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
14.08.1973
Number of children:
1
Articles:
Groups:
Parents of minors
Marks:

Timeline

  1. 2024
  2. ~30.12.2024

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody

  3. 2025
  4. ~24.09.2025

    Trial outcome date unknown

    4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions

  5. ~17.11.2025

    Status change

    In custody

  6. 2026
  7. 20.03.2026

    Status change

    Pardoned