Nasha Niva chief editor Yahor Martsinovich detained as suspect in criminal case

In the morn­ing of Sep­tem­ber 23, the apart­ment  of Yahor Martsi­novich, edi­tor-in-chief of Nasha Niva, was searched.

The police seized all dig­i­tal equip­ment, phones, flash dri­ves, pass­ports, and sim cards.

Yahor Mar­ti­novich was tak­en to the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee for ques­tion­ing. 

In the morn­ing Martsi­novich was walk­ing his dog, when his fam­i­ly got a SOS mes­sage from him . .

Lat­er his wife Adaria Hushtyn report­ed that the police were search­ing their apart­ment. She is a TUT.BY jour­nal­ist.

Adaria post­ed on Face­book that the search is linked to the Nasha Niva arti­cle where Ulad Sakalous­ki, one of the DJs of change, claimed that he had been beat­en by the deputy head of the Inte­ri­or Min­istry Alexan­der Bar­suk­ou.

The police start­ed crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings under arti­cle 188 of the Crim­i­nal Code — libel. Bar­suk­ou is rec­og­nized as a vic­tim in the case.

The search was con­duct­ed by the Min­istry’s own secu­ri­ty depart­ment.

Inte­ri­or Min­istry spokes­woman Vol­ha Chamadana­va told TUT.BYthat she did not yet have infor­ma­tion on the sit­u­a­tion.

She said she would be able to pro­vide an offi­cial com­ment on the sit­u­a­tion when the search is over.

On August 6, DJs Kiryl Halanau and Ulad Sakalous­ki played Tsoy’s song “Changes!” at the event  held by insti­tu­tions of fur­ther edu­ca­tion on the site, pre­vi­ous­ly allo­cat­ed for elec­tion cam­paign ral­lies.

The young peo­ple were detained the same very evening. On August 7, a court sen­tenced both of them to 10 days of jail for dis­or­der­ly con­duct.

Ulad Sakalous­ki spent half of his term in puni­tive con­fine­ment. Kiryl Jalanau spent three days in soli­tary con­fine­ment.

Upon his release, Sakalous­ki told Nasha Nivathat once a man entered his dis­ci­pli­nary cell and said the fol­low­ing: “Well, you’ve lis­tened to the song, have you? you want­ed changes, did you?“.

- He hit me twice in the back. He said it was just the begin­ning: “You can expect 10 years of jail.” Alleged­ly, he was told that Kiryl and I were paid to turn on the song.

On August 21, Ulad Sakalous­ki had a con­ver­sa­tion in the Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs. On August 22, the DJs left for Lithua­nia.

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