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 Vyacheslavovich Zheleznyakov
- 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 18.09.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.Involved in repression
Sergey Aleksandrovich Solovsky
MoreJudges1 august 1985
- Place:
- Gomel Regional Court
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 18.09.2024
- In custody:
- from 02.04.2024 to 20.03.2026
- Hometown:
- Gomel
- Birthday:
- 13.01.1987
- Was held in:
- IK-11, Volkovysk, Rokossovskogo, 118, 231900
- 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 membershipSlander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
- 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
02.04.2024
Transfer
SIZO-3 — In custody
18.09.2024
Trial outcome 18.09.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, Gomel Regional Court
21.10.2024
Transfer
IK-11 — In custody
- 2026
20.03.2026
Status change
Pardoned