February 17, Pozirk. The BySol solidarity fund has appealed for public donations to support opposition politician Pavał Sieviaryniec, who plans to resume his civil society activities, publish books and launch a YouTube channel following release from prison and expulsion from Belarus two months ago.
In a message on BySol’s website, the 49-year-old Sieviaryniec says that he will inform Belarusians about developments in Belarus and around the world through his YouTube channel, record videos about the history and mentality of the Belarus and “organize and support Belarusians abroad.”
Sieviaryniec wrote several books behind bars and managed to share them with his family through letters.
He is appealing for 7,000 euros for buying equipment, publishing his prison writings and drawings and organizing book launch events in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and other countries.
Pavał Seviaryniec, co-chairman of the now banned Belarusian Christian Democracy party, was arrested in June 2020 after an authorized signature-collection event in support of presidential hopeful Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja. In May 2021, he was given seven years in prison on charges of preparing mass riots.
Later, authorities blacklisted him as a person “involved in extremist activities” and transferred him from a penal colony to prison. He and the other 122 designated political prisoners were released and transported to Ukraine and Lithuania on December 13, 2025 following a meeting between Aleksandar Łukašenka and John Coale, the US special envoy to Belarus. Seviaryniec and his wife and son currently reside in Vilnius, Lithuania.
