{"id":581619,"date":"2026-09-25T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=581619"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:35:46","slug":"27-year-old-aviator-sentenced-to-13-years-in-belarusian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/27-year-old-aviator-sentenced-to-13-years-in-belarusian-prison","title":{"rendered":"27-Year-Old Aviator Sentenced to 13 Years in Belarusian Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Minsk City Court sentenced 27-year-old <strong>Sviataslau Padvashetski<\/strong> to 13 years in prison under a high-security regime. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code (illegal drug trafficking) and Part 1 of Article 356 (treason against the state). According to the Viasna Human Rights Center <a href=\"https:\/\/spring96.org\/be\/news\/121276\">reported<\/a>, the verdict was announced on Sept. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The court also fined Padvashetski 500 basic units. He was sentenced to two years for illegal drug trafficking and 12 years for \u201ctreason against the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trial was held behind closed doors, so details are not known. Padvashetski is currently being held at Detention Center No. 1 in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>Sviataslau Padvashetski was born on Sept. 15, 1998. He graduated from a flight school in Ukraine, after which he returned to Belarus and completed an internship at Belavia. His father was also a pilot.<\/p>\n<p>According to Viasna, Padvashetski remained in contact with former classmates, some of whom joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale war against Ukraine. Shortly before his detention, he sent one of his acquaintances a photo of the aircraft on which he was doing his internship, along with a message saying that he would fly it.<\/p>\n<p>Padvashetski was detained on June 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict is being appealed and has not yet entered into force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minsk City Court sentenced 27-year-old Sviataslau Padvashetski to 13 years in prison under a high-security regime. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code (illegal drug trafficking) and Part 1 of Article 356 (treason against the state). According to the Viasna Human Rights Center reported, the verdict was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":581618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab678b585f9f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"27-Year-Old Aviator Sentenced to 13 Years in Belarusian Prison"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143093],"class_list":["post-581619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-sudy"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581619","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=581619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581622,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581619\/revisions\/581622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}