Former political prisonersReleased

Uladzimir Ivanavich Melnik

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Vladimir was arrested in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and placed in pretrial detention.

In May 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.

According to human rights activists, he was released in September 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Sentences

Trial outcome 17.05.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.

Involved in repression

Tatiana Victorovna Shotik
Tatiana Victorovna Shotik
Judges24 april 1967
Place:
court of Leninsky district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
17.05.2022
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Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Overseers20 april 1978
Place:
SIZO-1
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Uladzimir Ivanavich Melnik
In custody:
Case categories:
Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
20.01.1965
Was held in:
IUOT-6, 225886, Brestskaya obl. Kobrinsky rayon, d. Luschiki, ul. Lesnaya, 14
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Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 08.12.2021

    Transfer

    SIZO-1 — In custody

  3. 2022
  4. 17.05.2022

    Trial outcome 17.05.2022

    2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, court of Leninsky district of Minsk

  5. 17.05.2022

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  6. 01.08.2022

    Transfer

    IUOT-6 — Penal labor facility

  7. 2023
  8. ~15.09.2023

    Status change

    Released