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  • Formerly imprisoned journalist Siarhei Hardzievich detained at border crossing

    According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists' source, Siarhei Hardzievich was detained on September 14 at the Brest border checkpoint as he was returning to Belarus from Poland.

    Alleged­ly, the for­mer jour­nal­ist for the Per­shy Rehi­jon pub­li­ca­tion had his phone exam­ined at the cross­ing and sub­se­quet­ly arrest­ed and sent to Brest tem­po­rary deten­tion cen­ter.
    It is like­ly that Siarhei Hardzievich is accused of dis­tri­b­u­tion or stor­age of extrem­ist con­tent in his phone.

    The jour­nal­ist pre­vi­ous­ly coop­er­at­ed with the inde­pen­dent Inter­net por­tal Per­shy Rehi­jon and report­ed from the town of Drahichyn.

    On 2 August 2021 the Ivana­va Dis­trict Court found Siarhei Hardzievich guilty for insult­ing pub­lic offi­cial, as well as spread­ing libel and insult­ing the pres­i­dent.

    The jour­nal­ist plead­ed not guilty and was sen­tenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison. He was rec­og­nized as a polit­i­cal pris­on­er.
    Hardzievich was released at the end of Octo­ber 2022 after serv­ing his sen­tence.

     

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