Former political prisonersPardoned

Pavel Shumski

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

An activist, detained in June 2025 in Pruzhany. The detention was demonstrative, security forces arrived for him in four cars, a search was conducted at his place of residence. Pavel is a former officer, a lawyer.

On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).

Sentences

Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.

Involved in repression

Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka
Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka
Overseers27 december 1979
Place:
SIZO-7
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Pavel Shumski
In custody:
Hometown:
Pruzhany
Birthday:
11.03.1983
Was held in:
SIZO-7, Brest, Sovetskih Pogranichnikov 37, 224030
Articles:
Groups:
Lawyers
Marks:

Timeline

  1. 2025
  2. ~18.08.2025

    Transfer

    SIZO-7 — In custody

  3. ~22.12.2025

    Trial outcome date unknown

    unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, Brest Regional Court

  4. 22.12.2025

    Status change

    Probation

  5. 2026
  6. 20.03.2026

    Status change

    Pardoned