human rights defender
Pavel Padabed
Actions and Campaigns
Pavel Padabed
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Organization affiliation
- Belsat TV
HRD's year of birth
1979
HRD's Gender
Man
Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
Pardoned
HRD's bio and work
Pavel Padabed is a journalist and cameraman. He was charged with cooperating with the Belsat TV channel. Among other things, he was suspected of preparing content for investigative programs - in particular, about the disappearance of videographer Dmitry Zavadski and the murder of journalist Pavel Sharamet.
Detained since
Jan 20, 2023
Date of release
Sep 11, 2025
Charge(s)
- Extremism
Sentence
4 years
Latitude: 54.22
Longitude: 30.29
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
Location of detention - City/Town
Škloŭ
Location of detention - Facility
Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8
Recent case update / evolution
On September 11, 2025, it was revealed that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania. Pavel Padabed was among those released.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1979
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Organization affiliation
- Belsat TV
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Pavel Padabed is a journalist and cameraman. He was charged with cooperating with the Belsat TV channel. Among other things, he was suspected of preparing content for investigative programs - in particular, about the disappearance of videographer Dmitry Zavadski and the murder of journalist Pavel Sharamet.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Škloŭ
- Location of detention - Facility
- Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 54.22
Longitude: 30.29
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Jan 20, 2023
- Current Status
- Pardoned
- Date of release
- Sep 11, 2025
- Charge(s)
- Extremism
- Sentence
4 years
- Recent case update / evolution
On September 11, 2025, it was revealed that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania. Pavel Padabed was among those released.
- Protection actions and campaigns
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- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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