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  • Journalist Pavel Padabed detained for 15 days

    The cameraman “disappeared” on 20 January after making some payments at the post office. He never appeared for his following appointment.

    It became known to BAJ that Pavel Pad­abed was arrest­ed and put under deten­tion for 15 days for an admin­is­tra­tive offense.

    This is not Pavel’s first encounter with the law enforce­ment sys­tem. After the 2010 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion and the ensu­ing pub­lic protests, the jour­nal­ist was repeat­ed­ly arrest­ed, includ­ing for cov­er­ing a “silent march” in 2011 as part of the “Rev­o­lu­tion Through Social Media” protest or dur­ing per­for­mances orga­nized by the Tell the Truth cam­paign activists dur­ing ear­ly vot­ing in the par­lia­men­tary elec­tions.

    In the fall of 2020, when Belarus was gripped by mass protests against stolen elec­tion results and the sub­se­quent use of vio­lence by the police, Pavel Pad­abed was also arrest­ed for his jour­nal­is­tic work. The deten­tion did not result in fur­ther per­se­cu­tion, though.

    But the sit­u­a­tion is rad­i­cal­ly dif­fer­ent now – many peo­ple who doc­u­ment­ed the dra­mat­ic events of 2020 have been put behind bars. The rel­e­vant exam­ples include video­g­ra­phers Ali­ak­san­dr Lubianchuk sen­tenced to three years of impris­on­ment for “par­tic­i­pa­tion in an extrem­ist for­ma­tion” and Ivan Murauy­ou who received a two-and-a-half-year sen­tence on a sim­i­lar charge.

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