Pavel Grigorievich Sheremet was a Belarusian-born Russian and Ukrainian journalist who was imprisoned by the government of Belarus in 1997, sparking an international incident between Belarus and Russia.
18 Facts About Pavel Sheremet
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Pavel Sheremet was awarded the Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award in 1999 and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Prize for Journalism and Democracy in 2002.
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Pavel Sheremet died in Kyiv on 20 July 2016 in a car explosion.
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From 1994 to April 1995, Pavel Sheremet was the anchor and producer of Prospekt, a weekly news and analysis program on Belarus state television.
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Pavel Sheremet then became editor-in-chief of the Belarusian newspaper Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta.
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In November 1997, Pavel Sheremet was one of the signatories of Charter Ninety-Seven, a pro-democracy manifesto demanding an end to "the infringement of basic human rights and liberties by the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko".
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Pavel Sheremet accused the Belarusian authorities of having arranged his forced disappearance in retaliation for his reporting, later alleging that he had been informed of government "death squads" by former Belarusian General Prosecutor Oleg Bazhelko.
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In 2012 Pavel Sheremet started working at the Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, where he launched a journalistic blog.
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Pavel Sheremet resigned from the Public Television of Russia in July 2014, saying that journalists who didn't follow the "style of Kremlin propaganda" while covering the ongoing crisis in Ukraine were "hounded".
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Pavel Sheremet was a critic of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, of Russian President Vladimir Putin and, later, of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, as well as a personal friend of assassinated Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
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Pavel Sheremet publicly criticized the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
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Pavel Sheremet was married with two children, a son and a daughter.
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Pavel Sheremet died in a car explosion in downtown of Kyiv, on 20 July 2016.
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Pavel Sheremet was in a red Subaru XV that belonged to his common-law wife and partner, the former editor-in-chief of Ukrayinska Pravda, Olena Prytula.
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On 23 July 2019, Head of the National Police Serhiy Knyazev told that the murder of Pavel Sheremet still remained unsolved, and the newly elected President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky told that those responsible for the murder of Pavel Sheremet would be found.
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On 30 January 2020, Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Ruslan Ryaboshapka admitted that the prosecution has not enough evidence needed for the murder case of journalist Pavel Sheremet to go to trial.
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In November 1998, Pavel Sheremet was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists, "an annual recognition of courageous journalism".
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In 2016 Pavel Sheremet Award was established by the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum in order to recognize courage in journalism and outstanding achievement in the cause of media freedom in Eastern Europe.