Former political prisonersForced emigration

Vasil Siarheyevich Yarmolenka

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Vasily is a guitarist and double bassist, a former member of the Belarusian State Dance Ensemble, and a member of bands such as Unia, Naked Monashka, and Mutnaevoka.

He was arrested in January 2022 in connection with a criminal case concerning group actions that grossly violated public order and was placed in a pretrial detention facility.

In April 2022, Vasily was convicted of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.

Left Belarus.

In December 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held within the framework of special proceedings on the issue of increasing the severity of the punishment.

Sentences

Trial outcome 22.04.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 05.12.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Alexander Vladimirovich Supichenko
Alexander Vladimirovich Supichenko
Judges5 april 1987
Place:
court of the Partizansky district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
05.12.2024
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Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Overseers20 april 1978
Place:
SIZO-1
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Vasil Siarheyevich Yarmolenka
In custody:
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
06.05.1985
Number of children:
2
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Groups:
Parents of minorsCreative people
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Timeline

  1. 2022
  2. 25.01.2022

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 — In custody

  3. 22.04.2022

    Trial outcome 22.04.2022

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

  4. 22.04.2022

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  5. ~08.05.2022

    Status change

    Forced emigration

  6. 2024
  7. 05.12.2024

    Regime change trial 05.12.2024

    unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia), court of the Partizansky district of Minsk