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
Vladimir Valerievich Makhnach
- 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 29.10.2024
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.Appeal 03.01.2025
unknown.Regime change trial 16.02.2026
3 years of prison regime.Involved in repression
Elena Valerievna Bachishche
MoreJudges17 october 2026
- Place:
- Minsk Regional Court
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 29.10.2024
Alexander Vladimirovich Kornienko
MoreOverseers9 january 1978
- Place:
- IK-17
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
MoreOverseers20 april 1978
- Place:
- SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility
- In custody:
- from 29.10.2024 to 20.03.2026
- Hometown:
- Minsk
- Birthday:
- 14.08.1977
- Was held in:
- Turma №4, Mogilev, Krupskaya 99A, 212011
- 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 membershipInsulting the presidentInsulting of a government representative
- Marks:
- Was at prison regime. Cell confinement where, unlike in a penal colony, inmates are kept within four walls at all times. This regime imposes the maximum number of restrictions on the convict.Financial transactions are blocked for people on the list, including money transfers to the detention centre in their name via bank or post.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
29.10.2024
Trial outcome 29.10.2024
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine, Minsk Regional Court
29.10.2024
Transfer
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody
~06.11.2024
Transfer
Turma №4 — In custody
- 2025
03.01.2025
Appeal 03.01.2025
unknown, Supreme Court
21.01.2025
Transfer
IK-17 — In custody