In 2005, Paval Sieviaryniec was accused of organizing protest actions against Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s running for a third presidential term that took place in Minsk after 2004 controversial referendum.

The U.S. protested the sentence, calling it a "parody of justice", and the European Union stated that "even by the standards of Belarus, this is an excessive penalty".

The group were detained for "participating in an unsanctioned meeting" and were also accused of possessing counterfeit money and Ukrainian liquor.

[8] Paval Sieviaryniec was detained during Ploscha night protests on 20 December 2010 and convicted in organizing and preparing activities that seriously disrupt public order, or participating in them.

[10] Currently Paval Sieviaryniec worked on re-foundation of the Belarusian Christian-democratic party, and is co-chairman of its organizational committee.

[2] On May 25, 2021, a Mogilev court sentenced him to seven years in prison on charges of organizing mass unrest.

On June 4, 2016, Sieviaryniec gave an interview to Radio Free Europe stating that homosexuality as a social norm will destroy the Belarusian nation, the very idea of gender is just as dangerous as racist propaganda or provoking class warfare and that gay Belarusians dishonor the memory of those died fighting against the USSR and Nazi Germany.

Furthermore, when Sieviaryniec found out about PEN's support of Make Out, he stopped paying dues alleging that centre was "promoting a sexual lifestyle".

[12] On 29 October 2019 he was expelled from the Belarusian PEN Center because of his homophobia, as he had supported in that year a petition from an anti-gender movement to make the government pass a law to criminalise LGBTI 'propaganda'.

[17][18] Paval Sieviaryniec is a member of the Belarusian Writers' Union,[19] and is working on his three-volume novel Belarusalim (vol.

Upon being jointly nominated by the European People's Party, the Socialists and Democrats and Renew Europe for the Sakharov Prize for his democratic opposition in Belarus, news surfaced[13] that Sieviaryniec had promoted homophobic policies in the country.

Support from the three European nominating parties was soon dropped off,[12] given that the purpose of prize to recognise people who defend human rights and fundamental freedoms.