Aksana Yuchkavich, a former journalist for catholic.by, detained

The rea­son for the deten­tion is cur­rent­ly unknown. Yuchkavich is a grad­u­ate of the Fac­ul­ty of Nat­ur­al Sci­ences at BSU, a Catholic believ­er, and an activist in the Belaru­sian scout move­ment. She has been col­lab­o­rat­ing with catholic.by for sev­er­al years. Aksana Yuchkavich is the author of a col­lec­tion of chil­dren’s poems titled Saint Nicholas, Come Vis­it Us! and has co-orga­nized sev­er­al cul­tur­al projects. One of her notable con­tri­bu­tions is the cre­ation of a chil­dren’s Chris­t­ian video show called Angels of the Rain­bow.

In addi­tion to her cre­ative pur­suits, Yuchkavich has also con­duct­ed sci­en­tif­ic research in the field of Belaru­sian philol­o­gy and taught Pol­ish lan­guage cours­es. The young woman was detained on Fore­fa­thers Eve cel­e­bra­tion in Kura­p­aty in 2020 and spent nine days in a deten­tion cen­ter for par­tic­i­pat­ing in an unau­tho­rized march. She was also arrest­ed in 2010 after the crack­down on the post-elec­tion protest in Min­sk and sen­tenced to ten days of admin­is­tra­tive deten­tion.

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