{"id":10247,"date":"2025-09-11T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=10247"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:50:52","slug":"pavel-vinagradau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2025\/09\/11\/pavel-vinagradau.html","title":{"rendered":"Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d (released on September 11, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Political persecution:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

On November 24, 2021, the Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the Bierazino Chronicles, which had 429 subscribers, as extremist.<\/p>\n

On December 22, 2021, Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d was arrested in his home in Bierazino.<\/p>\n

Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d was arrested for a single post on Facebook. The first linguistic examination did not reveal the composition of the crime. The investigator appointed a new examination, with reformulated questions; the expert’s name was classified, after which the “criminal” words were revealed. Charges were brought under three articles of the Criminal Code: Art. 342 (organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order or active participation in them), Art. 130 (incitement to racial, national, religious or other social enmity), Art. 367 (slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus).<\/p>\n

On December 27, 2021, Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d was recognized as a political prisoner.<\/p>\n

In January 2022, Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d was transferred from the Pre-trial detention center of \u017dodzina to pre-trial prison No. 8, where he was registered as “prone to extremism and other destructive activities.”<\/p>\n

Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d had been recognized as a political prisoner twice before. In 2008, for participating in a rally of entrepreneurs, he was sentenced to 2 years of restriction of liberty without being sent to a colony. On January 5, 2011, he was arrested for participating in a protest against the falsification of the 2010 elections. He was later accused of organizing mass riots and participating in them, as well as insulting national symbols, he was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment in a high-security prison. He served his sentence in Ivacevi\u010dy in Colony No. 22.<\/p>\n

On March 10, 2022, the trial in the criminal case of Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d began in the Minsk Regional Court.<\/p>\n

On March 16, Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment.<\/p>\n

On June 28, 2022, the KGB added the political prisoner to the list of persons “involved in terrorist activities.”<\/p>\n

On July 8, 2022, the Ministry of Internal Affairs included the political prisoner in the “List of persons involved in extremist activities\u201d.<\/p>\n

On July 28, 2022, Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d was transferred from Penal Colony No. 11 to Colony No. 12 in Orsha<\/strong>. It is known that Pavie\u0142 was deprived of a long date for sleeping during the day – now the political prisoner is officially recognized as a “vicious violator of the prison regime.” Pavie\u0142 was diagnosed with tuberculosis<\/strong> and lost 36 kg. It is known that the administration of PC No. 12 issued three reports on the political prisoner, placed Vinahrada\u016d in a punishment cell on August 23, and deprived him of all the packages. On September 22, Pavie\u0142 was released from the punishment cell, but immediately after that he was accused of “violating the regime” once again, so he was transferred for six months to a “special ward” \u2013 a prison cell suitable for tuberculosis patients.<\/p>\n

In February 2023, it became known that Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d was cured of tuberculosis and sent to PC No. 11 in Va\u016dkavysk.<\/p>\n

Pavie\u0142 Vinahrada\u016d was released on September 11, 2025 and forced into exile.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Creative activity:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Wrote on Facebook about everyday life in the city of Bierazino in the Minsk region, where he moved from Minsk. Ran a Telegram channel Bierazino Chronicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogger, online non-fiction author, and social activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4310],"class_list":["post-10247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bylyya_lyudzi_slova_u_nyavoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10247"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21359,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions\/21359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}