How much time was left for political prisoners released on September 16? Some of them had eight more years
Andrei Aliaksandrau and Pavel Bielavus were scheduled for release in 2034.
After each mass release of political prisoners, readers of "Nasha Niva" ask in comments to calculate how much time was left on the sentence for this or that person.
People have a hypothesis that mostly those who could have been home soon anyway are released. In some batches of released political prisoners, there were indeed many such individuals, but not in this case.
Let us immediately clarify that we are writing the approximate time of release according to the sentence. It depends on whether the political prisoner appealed the verdict and when the appeal was heard. This information is not always available to human rights activists. In addition, sometimes after detention, a person is sent for 15 days of administrative arrest (sometimes more than once), and these served days are not counted towards the completed sentence.
Relatively soon — in almost three months — former BelaPAN director Dzmitry Navazhylau was due to be released.
By the way, an unfortunate mix-up occurred with him — Navazhylau was on the release lists as early as March 2026, but then instead of him, another political prisoner with a similar surname, Uladzislau Navazhantsau, was released.
Two more people from this group could have been released in 2027, and four people in 2028.
Andrei Aliaksandrau and Pavel Bielavus would have had to spend the most time behind bars — until 2034.
- Dzmitry Navazhylau — December 2026
- Siarhei Rabtsau — August 2027
- Nastassia Lazarenka — September 2027
- Illia Verameyeu — April 2028
- Yanina Pazniak — most likely, February-March 2028. Her exact term is unknown
- Pavel Pietruchenia — July-August 2028
- Kiryl Pazniak — August-September 2028
- Iryna Zlobina — January 2029
- Sviatlana Yakubovich — February 2029
- Andrei Yaremchyk — November 2029
- Yauhen Burlo — May 2030
- Volha Stroeva — May 2030
- Tatsiana Kuzina — June 2030
- Kiryl Hniazdilau — October 2030
- Alena Lazarchyk — January 2031
- Dzianis Salmanovich — February 2031
- Yauhen Yushkevich — April-May 2031
- Dzmitry Halavach — May 2031
- Liudmila Chekina — April 2032
- Yana Pinchuk — November 2032
- Andrei Aliaksandrau — January 2034
- Pavel Bielavus — February-March 2034
In addition, Zmitser Kolas and Ales Chumakou were released, who had not even been sentenced yet, as well as Andrei Tsialiuk, whose trial outcome is unknown.
Half were denied, a third were granted refugee status. August results of reviews of Belarusians' applications for international protection in Poland have become known 2727
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