Sergei was arrested in February 2024. He was initially given a 24-hour sentence for "disseminating extremist materials," but was later charged with a criminal offense and transferred to a pretrial detention center. The case likely concerns the comments he made. Sergei faces four to twelve years in prison.
Sergey's hobby is music. In the 2000s, he played in the band "Forest Radio." He also participated in several other projects, translating foreign songs into Belarusian.
Sergei Yuryevich Gorlov studied at the Minsk State Linguistic University and later graduated from the European Humanities University. He worked as a translator and English tutor. His last known position was at the Sakharov Institute in Minsk.
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).
