Former political prisonersForced displacement

Alexander Fedorovich Shulga

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Alexander, the director of a Minsk company, was detained in late January 2025 and later convicted for participating in a post-election protest that took place in September 2020.

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 25.04.2025

1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Involved in repression

Anastasia Vasilevna Achalova

Judges15 october 1992

Place:: court of Leninsky district of Minsk
Type:: Court of First Instance
Date:: 25.04.2025

Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev

Overseers26 september 1981

Place:: IK-1
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

In custody:
Case categories:: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown:: Minsk
Birthday:: 28.05.1984
Was held in:: IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
Articles:

Timeline

2025
29.01.2025
Status change
In custody
25.04.2025
Trial outcome 25.04.2025
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, court of Leninsky district of Minsk
~20.05.2025
Transfer
IK-1 — In custody
13.12.2025
Status change
Forced displacement