On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
Former political prisonersForced displacement
Ilya Vladimirovich Knyazev
- 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
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime 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 ~30.05.2025 to 13.12.2025
- Case categories:
- Protests 2020, Minsk
- Hometown:
- Minsk
- Birthday:
- 15.06.1981
- Was held in:
- SIZO-1 Novodvorsky s/s, 143/4, Pashkovichi village, Minsk district, Minsk region 223016
- Articles:
- Organization of group actions grossly disturbing public order
- Marks:
- 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
~30.05.2025
Transfer
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody
~02.09.2025
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, court of the Partizansky district of Minsk
13.12.2025
Status change
Forced displacement