{"id":125703,"date":"2025-02-10T20:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/125703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"sarenda-panasiuk-says-journalist-andrejeva-was-beaten-by-security-officers-in-penal-colony","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/125703\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0160arenda-Panasiuk says journalist Andrejeva was beaten by security officers in penal colony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

February 10, Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Palina \u0160arenda-Panasiuk, opposition activist released from prison on February 1, has pieced together accounts of the beating of journalist Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachva\u0142ava) at Women’s Colony No. 4 in Homiel in early 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I heard them calling out Bachvalava\u2019s name. I heard her asking for a doctor,” \u0160arenda-Panasiuk has told reporters in Vilnius. “She said, ‘They beat me badly; they hit me on the head. Call a doctor.’ It is clear that no one called a doctor for her. It was February 9, 2022. And on February 10, they took her to a pretrial detention center in Homiel.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Afterward, I managed to talk to a girl about the situation. . . . She was beaten by four people [the girl told her]. I know their names: Detective \u010corny, Han\u010daro\u016d, Alochin and Ziuzin. . . . She was beaten on the head and on the stomach. It is the information that I managed to get. Unfortunately, I have never crossed paths with Kacia again,” she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrejeva and camerawoman Darja \u010culcova were arrested on November 15, 2020, as they broadcast live a police crackdown on protesters who gathered in a residential courtyard in Minsk, the so-called Plo\u0161\u010da Pieramien (Square of Change), to pay tribute to murdered activist Raman Bandarenka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 18, 2021, a district court in Minsk convicted the reporters of violent disorder and sentenced them to two years in prison. \u010culcova was released in September 2022 and now lives in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrejeva was charged with high treason shortly before the end of her term. On July 13, 2022, the Homiel Regional Court sentenced her to additional eight years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October last year, authorities arrested Andrejeva’s husband, Ihar Ilja\u0161, as part in connection with his work as journalist. He will stand trial at the Minsk City Court on February 21 to answer charges of supporting extremism and discrediting Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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