Pavel was first convicted in May 2021 for "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony. He was released in May 2022, having served his full sentence.
Pavel was detained again in the spring of 2024 on suspicion of collaborating with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. This was reported on the program "All About the Case" on the state-run television channel Belarus 4. Mogilev. In the published video, Pavel claims to have filmed the deployment of Iskander missiles to pass on to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and also reads a text presented as an oath of allegiance to Ukraine.
In November 2024, he faced a series of court hearings under the articles "participation in an armed group or armed conflict, military operations on the territory of a foreign state, recruitment or training of persons for such participation" and "treason." The outcome of the cases is unknown.
