Former political prisonersProbation

Yuri Viktorovich Vershuk

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

In July 2021, Yuri was found guilty of leaving a derogatory comment under a video of Gomel Regional Executive Committee Chairman Solovey answering citizens' questions on August 16, 2020.

On January 5, 2021, he was transferred to home confinement as part of a pardon.

Sentences

Trial outcome date unknown

2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.

Involved in repression

Denis Vyacheslavovich Samofalov

State prosecutors18 october 2026

Place:: Court of the Central District of Gomel
Type:: Court of First Instance

Sergey Aleksandrovich Solovsky

Judges1 august 1985

Place:: Court of the Central District of Gomel
Type:: Court of First Instance

In custody:
Hometown:: Gomel
Birthday:: 07.02.1972
Was held in:: IUOT-36, 220039, Minsk, ul. Korotkevicha, 14
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Timeline

2021
~30.07.2021
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, Court of the Central District of Gomel
10.10.2021
Transfer
IUOT-36 — Penal labor facility
2022
05.01.2022
Status change
Probation