{"id":137654,"date":"2025-05-12T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/137654\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"investigators-seal-exiled-journalists-minsk-apartment","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/137654\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators seal exiled journalist&#8217;s Minsk apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>May 12, Pozirk. <\/strong>The Committee for State Security (KGB) has sealed the Minsk apartment owned by exiled photojournalist Hienad\u017a Vieracinski, he has told <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seal prohibits entry and says that the KGB has seized the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vieracinki interpreted the incident as a part of a criminal case against him, noting that he has not been informed of the procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI received summonses and calls in 2023 when I left Belarus. At that time, I was at a hospital\u2019s intensive care unit. The Investigative Committee answered when they [nurses] called back that number to ask [what the matter was],\u201d the journalist said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vieracinki said his friends urged him to leave the country after he had been discharged from the hospital. The man has had no contact with the Belarusian law enforcers since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 67-year-old journalist had had one kidney removed. Last year, authorities blocked his Belarusian bank card to which his pension was credited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November, the Belarusian Association of Journalists raised funds to support him financially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, Pozirk. The Committee for State Security (KGB) has sealed the Minsk apartment owned by exiled photojournalist Hienad\u017a Vieracinski, he has told Pozirk. The seal prohibits entry and says that the KGB has seized the premises. Vieracinki interpreted the incident as a part of a criminal case against him, noting that he has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":137613,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-137654","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Investigators seal exiled journalist&#039;s Minsk apartment | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 12, Pozirk. 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