Former political prisonersReleased

Vladimir Ivanovich Chomichkov

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Vladimir, a student at the Aviation Academy, was detained and convicted in a criminal case opened over the events of July 14, 2020, in Minsk, when people took to the streets to protest the Central Election Commission's decision not to register Viktor Babariko and Valery Tsepkalo as presidential candidates. He was sentenced to restricted freedom in an open-type correctional facility and ordered to pay large compensation to the "victims."

In 2023, it became known that his punishment had been toughened, replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.

Sentences

Trial outcome 20.01.2021
4 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 5976 rubles of compensation.
Regime change trial date unknown
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Involved in repression

Tatiana Valerievna Pirozhnikova
Tatiana Valerievna Pirozhnikova
Judges1 august 1987
Place:
court of the Moscow district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
20.01.2021
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Vladimir Ivanovich Chomichkov
In custody:
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
02.03.2000
Was held in:
IK №3
Articles:
Groups:
Students

Timeline

  1. 2020
  2. 15.07.2020

    Administrative court

    Fine (35 basic values)

  3. 2021
  4. 20.01.2021

    Trial outcome 20.01.2021

    4 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 5976 rubles of compensation, court of the Moscow district of Minsk

  5. 21.05.2021

    Transfer

    IUOT-6 — Penal labor facility

  6. 2023
  7. ~20.12.2023

    Regime change trial date unknown

    1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions

  8. ~20.12.2023

    Transfer

    IK-3 — In custody