Journalist Katsiaryna Andreeva transferred to jail for “investigative actions”

It fol­lows from let­ters that are returned to an addressee. At the same time, nei­ther the fam­i­ly nor the lawyers have been informed about Katsiaryna’s where­abouts.

Kat­siary­na Andree­va was trans­ferred to a pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter in con­nec­tion with some “inves­tiga­tive actions”. Her sta­tus is unknown.

The journalist’s hus­band Ihar Ilyash con­firmed that Kat­siary­na was no longer in the cor­rec­tion­al facil­i­ty – she was trans­ferred to the Homel pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter.

“Indeed, Katia left the cor­rec­tion­al camp – she has been in the pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter #3 in Homel since Feb­ru­ary 10. I did not make this infor­ma­tion pub­lic because I hoped to find out the details first to under­stand what was hap­pen­ing. All futile. To date, I only know that she was trans­ferred to the pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter in con­nec­tion with some “inves­tiga­tive actions”.

Ear­li­er, polit­i­cal pris­on­er Natal­lia Her­she was trans­ferred to prison from the same pen­i­ten­tiary – the admin­is­tra­tion stiff­ened her deten­tion con­di­tions.

Kat­siary­na Andree­va (Bakhval­o­va) and Darya Chultso­va are Bel­sat TV chan­nel jour­nal­ists. They were sen­tenced to two years in a cor­rec­tion­al facil­i­ty each for live-stream­ing from the protest in the mem­o­ry of mur­dered Raman Ban­daren­ka in Novem­ber 2020 in Min­sk.