human rights defender
Pavel Mazheika
Actions and Campaigns
Pavel Mazheika
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Organization affiliation
- Urban Life Center
HRD's year of birth
1978
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 Mazheika is the head of the Urban Life Center in Hrodna and a journalist. He was arrested in late August 2022, upon his return to Belarus.
Detained since
Aug 30, 2022
Date of release
Sep 11, 2025
Charge(s)
- Extremism
Sentence
6 years
Latitude: 53.14
Longitude: 29.2
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
Location of detention - City/Town
Babrujsk
Location of detention - Facility
Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1
Recent case update / evolution
On September 11, 2025, it was revealed that 52 political prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania. Among those released was Pavel Mazheika.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1978
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Organization affiliation
- Urban Life Center
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Pavel Mazheika is the head of the Urban Life Center in Hrodna and a journalist. He was arrested in late August 2022, upon his return to Belarus.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Babrujsk
- Location of detention - Facility
- Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 53.14
Longitude: 29.2
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Aug 30, 2022
- Current Status
- Pardoned
- Date of release
- Sep 11, 2025
- Charge(s)
- Extremism
- Sentence
6 years
- Recent case update / evolution
On September 11, 2025, it was revealed that 52 political prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania. Among those released was Pavel Mazheika.
- Protection actions and campaigns
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- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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