Pavel graduated from the Faculty of Radio Engineering and Nanotechnology of BSUIR and worked at Integral in Minsk. He is a Catholic who regularly attended Mass at the Maladzechna church with his sister, and he graduated from music school in piano.
In March 2021, Pavel was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin lymphoma. On 26 January 2022 he was detained: his family were first told it was for three days, but he was then kept in custody until trial despite documents showing he needed treatment. His condition worsened in custody, and an inflammatory process began.
In June 2022, Pavel was found guilty in a criminal case opened under several articles, including insulting Lukashenko and "Threat against a judge or people's assessor", for comments in a Maladzechna Telegram chat.
In July 2022 he was assigned first-group disability. Pavel was never sent to a penal colony: he was held in a prison hospital, where chemotherapy did not help and a bone marrow transplant was impossible in custody. The pardon petition he tried to submit was returned to him.
Released under a pardon in August 2024: he was taken from the prison hospital to a city hospital with pneumonia.
