{"id":179442,"date":"2026-03-15T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/179442\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:32:44","slug":"journalist-dabravolski-sentenced-to-medium-security-penal-colony","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/179442\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Dabravolski sentenced to medium security penal colony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 15, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Journalist Pavie\u0142 Dabravolski, sentenced to nine years on March 6 on high treason charges at a trial behind closed doors, will be serving his sentence at a medium-security penal colony, not a high-security institution as Pozirk<\/em> reported earlier. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medium security allows for three short and two long meetings with the family and three boxes or big parcels, two wrapper parcels and two small parcels a year and 225 rubels per month to spend on basic needs. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The charges of high treason reportedly stemmed from the journalist\u2019s professional activities during the 2020 postelection protests in Belarus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dabravolski was arrested on January 22, 2025, ten days after his 35th birthday.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist had worked for the BelaPAN<\/em> media company before the KGB declared it an \u201cextremist group\u201d in November 2021. In October 2020, he was arrested in Minsk and jailed for 15 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Dabravolski\u2019s social media, after leaving Belarus at the end of 2021, he traveled around the world. In October 2024, he returned to the Belarusian capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The human rights community considers him a political prisoner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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