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
Vladimir Viktorovich Melikaev
- 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
Letter bank0Add a letter to the bank
Sentences
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.Appeal date unknown
unknown.Involved in repression
Dmitriy Nikolaevich Strebkov
MoreOverseers19 march 1977
- Place:
- Turma №8
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from ~26.05.2025 to 20.03.2026
- Hometown:
- Sosnovaya
- Birthday:
- 20.10.1967
- 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 membership
- Marks:
- 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
- 2025
~26.05.2025
Transfer
Turma №8 — In custody
~16.09.2025
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions
~10.11.2025
Transfer
Turma №4 — In custody
~01.12.2025
Appeal date unknown
unknown
22.12.2025
Status change
In custody