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  • Supreme Court rejects appeal of journalist Iryna Slaunikava in closed session

    On 6 December, the Supreme Court of Belarus considered the appeal filed by Iryna Slaunikava’s lawyers challenging the decision of the Homel Regional Court. In a closed session, the court denied the re-examination of the case or remission of her sentence (five years of imprisonment).

    The journalist’s lawyers appealed against two of her charges: orga­ni­za­tion and prepa­ra­tion of actions that gross­ly vio­late pub­lic order and par­tic­i­pa­tion in an extrem­ist for­ma­tion.

    How­ev­er, judge Fio­dar Chubkavets found no legal grounds to chal­lenge the deci­sion of the first-instance court, so the ver­dict remains the same. Iry­na Slau­nika­va is serv­ing her sen­tence in Homel remand prison #3.

    The jour­nal­ist and her hus­band Ali­ak­san­dr Loi­ka were detained in late Octo­ber 2021 at the Nation­al Air­port, when return­ing from a vaca­tion. Ali­ak­san­dr was released after 45 days, while Iry­na was charged with sev­er­al crimes relat­ed to her jour­nal­is­tic work at the Bel­sat TV chan­nel.

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