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  • Aksana Kolb sentenced to 2.5 years of freedom restriction and released from courtroom

    On 15 June, the Tsentralny District Court of Minsk pronounced a verdict for Aksana Kolb, Novy
    Chas editor-in-chief. She got 2.5 years of imprisonment in an open correctional facility.

    Judge Zmitser Kar­siuk found her guilty of active par­tic­i­pa­tion in actions that gross­ly vio­late
    pub­lic order.

    She was released in the court­room after the ver­dict. The jour­nal­ist signed a writ­ten pledge not to
    leave town until she is sent to serve her sen­tence.
    Aksana Kolb was rec­og­nized as a polit­i­cal pris­on­er

    On April 20, secu­ri­ty offi­cers with shields and sledge­ham­mers raid­ed the apart­ment of the Novy
    Chas chief edi­tor. They brought her for inter­ro­ga­tion to the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee, where she
    was detained for 10 days. Aksana Kolb was lat­er charged under a pop­u­lar arti­cle for her
    par­tic­i­pa­tion in a march in August 2020.
    The Novy Chas news­pa­per has not been pub­lished since August 2021 and its web­site was
    blocked in Octo­ber 2021.

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