Павел Спирин. Скриншот видео
Former political prisoner Pavel Spiryn has left Belarus and is currently in Lithuania. A video featuring the former political prisoner was published by the head of the BELAID initiative Andrej Stryzhak.
“Blogger Pavel Spiryn is in Lithuania! Safe, free and in good spirits,” he wrote.
“Hello everyone, I have finally left Belarus and am now in Lithuania. Many thanks to everyone for the support, for being with me and with other people all these years who did not manage to finish what we were supposed to finish in 2020. But everything is still ahead,” Spiryn says in the video.
It should be recalled that in February 2021 Spiryn was sentenced to four and a half years in prison under an article on incitement of hatred. The case concerned two videos on the blogger’s YouTube channel: the film “The Edge” about anti-drug legislation and “The Terrifying Secret of Belarus’s Prosecutor General: Carte Blanche for Sadism” about the events of August 9, 2020. In 2024, a month before the end of his sentence, he was tried again under an article on disobedience to the prison administration. In January it became known that after more than five years in detention Pavel had been released.
Video: Aliaksandr Kabanau