Detained for comments on social media.
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
Sergei Nikolaevich Leonyuk
- 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 22.09.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.Appeal 17.11.2023
unknown.Involved in repression
Svetlana Anasovna Cherepanova
MoreJudges4 october 1972
- Place:
- Minsk City Court
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 22.09.2023
Dmitriy Nikolaevich Strebkov
MoreOverseers19 march 1977
- Place:
- Turma №8
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
Alexey Valerievich Lazarenko
MoreOthersOverseers29 june 1975
- Place:
- IK-15
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from 03.04.2023 to 20.03.2026
- Hometown:
- Minsk
- Birthday:
- 25.05.1971
- Was held in:
- IK №15, 212013, Mogilev, p/o Veyno, Slavgorodskoye shosse 183
- 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 membershipInvolvement on the territory of a foreign state in an armed formation or armed conflict, military operations, recruitment or preparation of persons for such participation
- Groups:
- EntrepreneursParents of minors
- 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
- 2023
03.04.2023
Transfer
Turma №8 — In custody
22.09.2023
Trial outcome 22.09.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, Minsk City Court
17.11.2023
Appeal 17.11.2023
unknown, Minsk City Court
~24.12.2023
Transfer
SIZO-1 — In custody
~29.12.2023
Transfer
Turma №4 — In custody