He is a pensioner and has a young child to support.
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
Vitaly Ivanovich Khalchitsky
- 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 24.03.2025
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.Involved in repression
Tatiana Mikhailovna Kostyuk
MoreJudges12 april 1969
- Place:
- court of Leninsky district of Mogilev
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 24.03.2025
Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev
MoreOverseers26 september 1981
- Place:
- IK-1
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from ~17.12.2024 to 20.03.2026
- Hometown:
- Mogilev
- Birthday:
- 27.02.1957
- Was held in:
- IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
- Articles:
- Slander against the President of the Republic of BelarusInsulting the president
- Groups:
- Retirees
- 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
- 2024
~17.12.2024
Transfer
Turma №4 — In custody
- 2025
24.03.2025
Trial outcome 24.03.2025
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, court of Leninsky district of Mogilev
~28.04.2025
Transfer
IK-1 — In custody
- 2026
20.03.2026
Status change
Pardoned