He was sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment for comments posted online on a social network, the content of which was not specified in the court ruling and which contained criticism of law enforcement officers and insults against the former head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs M. Karpenkov, and A. Lukashenko.
In the absence of signs of public danger of the accused, if he could cause harm to others and/or himself, his placement for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital is considered as arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
As of July 2026, Pavel was in the 26th department of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center "Novinki".
