Pavel Sevyarynets

When the imprisoned politician Pavel Sevyarynets was informed of the death of his father, Belarusian author and translator Kanstantsin Sevyarynets, he was allowed to phonr his mother, but he was barred from being present at the funeral, his wife Volha said on Facebook.

Kastus Sevyarynets died in hospital on Friday morning, his daughter, Belarusian educator Hanna Sevyarynets, said on Facebook.

His wife Volha wrote about it on Facebook recently

Volha says Pavel is cheerful

The politician will spend another five and a half years behind bars

On Thursday, the police raided the flat of Tatsyana and Kanstantsin Sevyarynets in Vitsebsk. Three security officers and some witnesses took part in the search.

On Tuesday, Belarusian Christian Democracy party leader Pavel Sevyarynets and European Belarus civil campaign coordinator Yauhen Afnahel have been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in a medium security penal colony for ‘organising mass riots’.

Jailed Belarusian politician Pavel Sevyarynets has been recognised as ‘a prone to attacking the prison administration.

The wife of political prisoner Pavel Sevyarynets, wrote on Facebook about how the trial over the status of the extremist

Pavel Sevyarynets has been behind bars since June 2020. Yauhen Afnahel, Pavel Yukhnevich, Dzmitry Kazlou, Maksim Vinyarski and Andrei Voynich will be tried together with him. They are all accused of rioting.

On May 12, Mahiliou regional court is to start hearing the cases of the European Belarus civil campaign activists, blogger Zmitser Kazlou and opposition politician Pavel Sevyarynets.

The wife of a political prisoner believes that the trial will not take place until May.

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