Former political prisonersForced displacement

Yuri Anatolyevich Rubashenko

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

In 2024, Yuri was found guilty of “insulting Lukashenko.”

According to the "list of organizations and individuals involved in terrorist activity" of September 4, 2025, he was also charged with "inciting hatred and discord" and "calls for sanctions." These charges carry a sentence of imprisonment in a penal colony.

On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.

Sentences

Trial outcome 24.12.2024

unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Trial outcome date unknown

unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Involved in repression

Alexander Anatolevich Yakunchikhin

Judges29 december 1973

Place:: court of the Soviet district of Minsk
Type:: Court of First Instance
Date:: 24.12.2024

Alexander Vladimirovich Kornienko

Overseers9 january 1978

Place:: IK-17
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric

Overseers20 april 1978

Place:: SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik

Overseers16 november 1982

Place:: SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

In custody:
Hometown:: Minsk
Birthday:: 19.08.1979
Was held in:: IK №17, 213004, Shklov, ul. 1-ya Zavodskaya, 8
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Timeline

2024
~12.09.2024
Transfer
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody
24.12.2024
Trial outcome 24.12.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, court of the Soviet district of Minsk
2025
~19.08.2025
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions
~15.09.2025
Transfer
IK-17 — In custody
13.12.2025
Status change
Forced displacement