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
Andrei Sitnikau
- 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 31.10.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.Appeal 20.12.2024
unknown.Involved in repression
Svetlana Anasovna Cherepanova
MoreJudges4 october 1972
- Place:
- Minsk City Court
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 31.10.2024
Dmitriy Nikolaevich Strebkov
MoreOverseers19 march 1977
- Place:
- Turma №8
- 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 ~02.04.2024 to 20.03.2026
- Hometown:
- Minsk
- Birthday:
- 20.03.1965
- 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 membershipCreation of an extremist formation or participation in itInsulting the presidentInsulting of a government representative
- 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
~02.04.2024
Transfer
Turma №8 — In custody
~28.10.2024
Transfer
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody
31.10.2024
Trial outcome 31.10.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, Minsk City Court
20.12.2024
Appeal 20.12.2024
unknown, Supreme Court
- 2025
~10.01.2025
Status change
In custody