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  • Siarhei Satsuk Set Free! DETAILS

    On the tenth day after Satsuk's arrest, the Prosecutor General of Belarus revoked the decision to take EJ.BY chief editor into custody.

    The journalist had to give a personal recognizance to appear (not even a restriction of travel order) and walked free. Siarhei shared the details with the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

    The offi­cial charges against the jour­nal­ist have nev­er been filed.

    — For the inves­ti­ga­tion to work with­out pres­sure, a deci­sion was made to release me, — they told me today.

    Siarhei says, in the run up to his deten­tion, he received mate­ri­als for a new jour­nal­is­tic inves­ti­ga­tion and decid­ed to work with them.

    — On Sun­day, my Pol­ish col­league and I dis­cussed some mate­ri­als on the new pres­i­den­tial hos­pi­tal. And on Wednes­day I was detained — says Siarhei. Still, he empha­sizes, inves­ti­ga­tors warned him sev­er­al times that his com­ments would be unde­sir­able.

    The jour­nal­ist remains a sus­pect in the case. He also made a non-dis­clo­sure state­ment.

    Siarhei  says, he learned about the sol­i­dar­i­ty cam­paign from an attor­ney who vis­it­ed him twice in jail, and is very grate­ful for it.  

    Now the jour­nal­ist is at home with his fam­i­ly.

    Inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Sat­suk, chief edi­tor of EJ.BY, was arrest­ed by the offi­cers of the Depart­ment of Finan­cial Inves­ti­ga­tions of the State Con­trol Com­mit­tee on March 25 on sus­pi­cion of receiv­ing a bribe. On March 27, the EJ.BY staff were inter­ro­gat­ed, and Sat­suk was trans­ferred to inves­tiga­tive iso­la­tor SIZO 1.

    On March 31, the State Con­trol Com­mit­tee insti­gat­ed a crim­i­nal case against him under arti­cle 430 part 2 of the Crim­i­nal Code (receiv­ing a bribe). Inves­ti­ga­tion claims, Sat­suk received 5 thou­sand dol­lars as a bribe for writ­ing an arti­cle «against com­peti­tors».

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