{"id":152645,"date":"2025-08-26T17:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152645\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"rights-defenders-declare-two-journalists-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152645\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights defenders declare two journalists political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/supruniuk_dobrovolski_baj.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/supruniuk_dobrovolski_baj.jpg 705w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/supruniuk_dobrovolski_baj-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/supruniuk_dobrovolski_baj-178x118.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(BAJ)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>August 26, Pozirk.<\/strong> The human rights community has recognized journalists Aleh Supruniuk and Pavie\u0142 Dabravolski as political prisoners, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 8, Supruniuk was convicted of membership in an \u201cextremist group\u201d and sentenced to three years in prison. Prior to the trial, he had spent more than six months in a detention center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 4, the Brest Region Prosecutor\u2019s Office submitted a criminal case against Supruniuk to court without disclosing his name. According to the report, prosecutors alleged that \u201cthe man had joined the Belarusian Association of Journalists, declared an \u2018extremist group\u2019 by the KGB on February 28, 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a BAJ member, Supruniuk had written at least 43 articles, prosecutors charged. He also has a hearing disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dabravolski, a former journalist with <em>Naviny.by<\/em>, the online newspaper of the <em>BelaPAN<\/em> news agency, was taken into custody in January. It remains unclear what charges he faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He previously worked with independent media and covered 2020 postelection protests, during which he was detained and charged with a minor offense. Dabravolski left Belarus in the fall of 2021 but later returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to BAJ, he is being persecuted for \u201cexercising the right to free expression and dissemination of information.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/suprunuk-baj-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/suprunuk-baj-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/suprunuk-baj-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/suprunuk-baj-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/suprunuk-baj-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/suprunuk-baj.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Brest journalist given three years in prison over alleged BAJ link<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">August 25, Pozirk. Brest-based journalist Aleh Supruniuk has been sentenced to three years in prison for alleged association with an extremist group, most likely the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), the latter has said. The 58-year-old with a hearing disability &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/152459\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read <\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 26, Pozirk. The human rights community has recognized journalists Aleh Supruniuk and Pavie\u0142 Dabravolski as political prisoners, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) reported. On August 8, Supruniuk was convicted of membership in an \u201cextremist group\u201d and sentenced to three years in prison. Prior to the trial, he had spent more than six months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":152632,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-152645","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>Rights defenders declare two journalists political prisoners | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 26, Pozirk. 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