He was released at the end of August 2025.
Former political prisonersReleased
Victor Vasilevich Merzlikin
- 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 28.06.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.Involved in repression
Svetlana Anasovna Cherepanova
MoreJudges4 october 1972
- Place:
- Minsk City Court
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 28.06.2024
Alexander Vladimirovich Kornienko
MoreOverseers9 january 1978
- Place:
- IK-17
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
MoreOverseers20 april 1978
- Place:
- SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from ~15.03.2024 to 28.08.2025
- Case categories:
- Protests 2020, Minsk
- Hometown:
- Minsk
- Birthday:
- 21.11.2002
- Was held in:
- IK №17, 213004, Shklov, ul. 1-ya Zavodskaya, 8
- 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 membershipOrganization of group actions grossly disturbing public orderCalls for actions aimed at the detriment of the external security of the Republic of BelarusSlander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
- 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
- 2024
~15.03.2024
Transfer
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody
28.06.2024
Trial outcome 28.06.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, Minsk City Court
~22.07.2024
Transfer
IK-17 — In custody
- 2025
28.08.2025
Status change
Released