In the morning of 19 October relatives, friends, colleagues and journalists were awaiting Pavel Sieviaryniets at the gates of the special settlement in the village Kuplin (Pruzhansky district, Brest region), where Pavel was serving his sentence. But Pavel was released few hours earlier and immidiately transported to the railway station where he boarded the train to Minsk. Several journalists who came to meet Pavel on the railway station in Minsk were detained. The exact number of detainees is unknown.