Imprisoned journalist Pavel Mazheika’s personal website launched on International Day of Solidarity of Journalists

The new web­site FreeP­avel­Mazhey­ka tells Pavel’s sto­ry and explains how you can sup­port him.

Pavel Mazhei­ka is a cul­tur­al man­ag­er, the founder of the icon­ic Urban Life Cen­ter in Hrod­na and orga­nized a strong com­mu­ni­ty, a well-known jour­nal­ist, and the coor­di­na­tor of the City Library pub­lish­ing ini­tia­tive that issued books about Hrod­na and by Hrod­na-based authors.

For many years, he has been work­ing to pre­serve the city sights and cre­ate new ones, mak­ing Hrod­na a city to be proud of and inspired by. He sup­port­ed many pub­lic ini­tia­tives and was con­vict­ed that by cre­at­ing our Belaru­sian cul­ture, we can build the coun­try we dream of.

Pavel is one of the first polit­i­cal pris­on­ers of Belarus: in 2002, he was sen­tenced to two years of free­dom restric­tion for “slan­der­ing” the pres­i­dent in an arti­cle pub­lished in Paho­nia, one of the first inde­pen­dent news­pa­pers. Lit­er­ary exam­i­na­tion of the text repeat­ed­ly proved no defama­tion in the Paho­nia pub­li­ca­tions, but these find­ings were dis­missed. His term was lat­er com­mut­ed by one year. Mean­while, Paho­nia was closed.

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