Sergei was convicted under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type institution.
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).
Trial outcome 11.03.2025
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He worked as a tinsmith at a private firm. When the 2020 election campaign began, he attended signature-collecting pickets, then marches. In the fall of 2020, Alexander was detained by KGB officers and sentenced to 15 days in jail. After that, he was repeatedly summoned for "interviews": "They took a polygraph test in connection with a case involving a broken window, conducted by some judge or investigator," he recalls .
In January 2025, officers from the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) visited him at work and took him to the Pervomaisky District Police Department. He was sentenced to 10 days in a temporary detention facility. A criminal case was then opened for participating in protests and he was transferred to a prison in Kolyadichi, where he spent two months before his trial.
Trial outcome 21.03.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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