Valery Pazniakievic
Is case active: Yes
Country:Belarus
Region:Europe and Central Asia
Gender:Male
Status:Imprisoned
Poet and bard Valery Pazniakievic was detained in August 2024 after posting political poems on social media. His poems were analyzed in the investigation against him and he was questioned for writing them in Belarusian as opposed to Russian. He received a series of fines over the next year totalling 4,830 rubles throughout the next year due to his political posts. He was detained in the summer of 2025 and released on bail. In August, he was sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting Lukashenka.”