{"id":525679,"date":"2026-03-15T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=525679"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:40:36","slug":"pavel-dabravolski-to-serve-sentence-in-medium-security-penal-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/pavel-dabravolski-to-serve-sentence-in-medium-security-penal-colony","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Dabravolski to Serve Sentence in Medium-Security Penal Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Journalist <strong>Pavel Dabravolski<\/strong>, who was sentenced to nine years in prison, will serve his term in a medium-security penal colony, Pozirk <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/be\/news\/179414\/\">reports<\/a>. It had previously been reported that the Minsk City Court had assigned him a strict-regime colony, but that information was later clarified.<\/p>\n<p>A medium-security regime allows three short visits and two long visits per year, the receipt of three parcels and two small packages annually, as well as a monthly allowance for food and basic necessities equivalent to five base units \u2014 in 2026 this amounts to 225 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Dabravolski is a former journalist of Naviny.by. He previously cooperated with various independent outlets, and during the 2020 protests he was detained and held administratively liable in connection with his professional activities.<\/p>\n<p>Dabravolski left Belarus in 2021 but returned to Minsk in October 2024. In January 2025 he was detained. He was charged under Part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code on treason against the state. The trial took place from February 27 to March 6. The journalist refused to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Pavel Dabravolski, who was sentenced to nine years in prison, will serve his term in a medium-security penal colony, Pozirk reports. It had previously been reported that the Minsk City Court had assigned him a strict-regime colony, but that information was later clarified. A medium-security regime allows three short visits and two long visits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":517138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b69abc35c07.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Pavel Dabravolski to Serve Sentence in Medium-Security Penal Colony"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143092],"class_list":["post-525679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-pavel-dobrovolskij"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}