On October 3, 2023, the appeal was heard.
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Former political prisonersForced displacement
Sergey Nikolaevich Rudenkov
- 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 bank4Add a letter to the bank
Sentences
Trial outcome 11.07.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.Appeal 03.10.2023
unknown.Regime change trial 02.07.2024
unknown years of prison regime.Involved in repression
Ruslan Vitalievich Tsaruk
MoreJudges28 may 1978
- Place:
- Gomel Regional Court
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 11.07.2023
Alexander Grigorievich Savchuk
MoreJudges21 july 1981
- Place:
- Gomel Regional Court
- Type:
- Appeal
- Date:
- 03.10.2023
Sergey Mikhailovich Silivestrov
MoreJudges17 october 2026
- Place:
- Shklovsky District Court
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 02.07.2024
Alexander Vladimirovich Kornienko
MoreOverseers9 january 1978
- Place:
- IK-17
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from ~20.04.2023 to 13.12.2025
- Hometown:
- Chachersk
- Birthday:
- 04.03.1984
- Was held in:
- Turma №4, Mogilev, Krupskaya 99A, 212011
- 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 membershipPromoting extremist activitiesPromotion of extremist activity committed repeatedly or by a group of personsInsulting the presidentInsulting of a government representative
- Marks:
- Was at prison regime. Cell confinement where, unlike in a penal colony, inmates are kept within four walls at all times. This regime imposes the maximum number of restrictions on the convict.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
- 2023
~20.04.2023
Transfer
SIZO-3 — In custody
11.07.2023
Trial outcome 11.07.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, Gomel Regional Court
03.10.2023
Appeal 03.10.2023
unknown, Gomel Regional Court
20.10.2023
Transfer
IK-17 — In custody
- 2024
02.07.2024
Regime change trial 02.07.2024
unknown years of prison regime, Shklovsky District Court