Support for Pavel Belavus’s family

Pavel Belavus has been devel­op­ing projects in the field of Belaru­sian cul­ture and nation­al iden­ti­ty for more than 10 years. He was the orig­i­na­tor of Art Syadz­i­ba, a plat­form where Belaru­sian poets, writ­ers and musi­cians debuted and per­formed. Pavel was the orga­niz­er of famous cul­tur­al events and con­certs — “Day of Vyshy­van­ka” in 2014, the cel­e­bra­tion of the 100th anniver­sary of the BNR in 2018, “Mova Fest” in 2020. Pavel also found­ed the store “Symbal.by”, one of the few places in Min­sk where it was pos­si­ble to buy goods with nation­al sym­bols. And in 2020, Pavel found­ed the pub­lic com­pa­ny “God­na,” whose goal was to cre­ate a mod­ern cul­tur­al foun­da­tion for Belarus.

Pavel devot­ed most of his con­scious life to the idea of build­ing a “Belaru­sian Belarus,” where peo­ple val­ue their tra­di­tions, use their lan­guage, have nation­al dig­ni­ty, and choose the path of their coun­try. How­ev­er, the cur­rent polit­i­cal regime con­sid­ered these dreams as “extrem­ism” and qual­i­fied them under the crim­i­nal arti­cle “trea­son against the state”.

On May 11, 2023, Min­sk City Court sen­tenced Pavel Belous to 13 years in a closed tri­al. This is the answer of the polit­i­cal regime not only to Pavel, but to every Belaru­sian who dreams of a state with its own vibrant cul­ture and strong nation­al con­scious­ness of its cit­i­zens. It is an answer for those who are ready to work for the future of inde­pen­dent Belarus.

Pavel Belavus’s wife Kat­siary­na and two small chil­dren are still at large. They con­fis­cat­ed cars and some house­hold appli­ances from Pavel’s fam­i­ly. All the prop­er­ty in the house (from the clos­et to the ket­tle) has been described and may be con­fis­cat­ed.

Sup­port the fam­i­ly of Pavel Belavus, a man who gave his free­dom for the love of Belarus!

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