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February 27, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>The Brest Regional Court on February 26 sentenced U\u0142adzimir Janukievi\u010d and Andrej Pakalenka, journalists associated with the BAR24<\/em> and Intex Press<\/em> media in Baranavi\u010dy, to 14 and 12 years in prison after finding them guilty of high treason, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janukievi\u010d was ordered to pay 135,000 rubels (\u20ac40,000) and Pakalenka, 45,000 rubels (\u20ac13,300), in fines. Details of the charges are unknown because the trial was held behind closed doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janukievi\u010d, 65, and Pakalenka, 44, served as CEO and deputy CEO of the local newspaper Intex-Press<\/em>, designated as \u201cextremist content\u201d by authorities in April 2023. The designation followed a police raid on the newspaper\u2019s office on February 15, 2023, in which law enforcement officers seized all computers and cameras. Janukievi\u010d and Pakalenka went on to launch the news website bar24.by<\/em>, but were arrested in December 2024 together with four other journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November, the four journalists \u2013 Natalla Siemianovi\u010d, Mikita Piatro\u016dski, Rus\u0142an Raviaka and Ludmi\u0142a Zielankova \u2013 were sentenced to terms of two and three years of \u201crestricted freedom\u201d in home confinement on extremism-related charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 27, authorities in Belarus put on trial another journalist, Pavie\u0142 Dabravolski, on high treason charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 27, Pozirk. The Brest Regional Court on February 26 sentenced U\u0142adzimir Janukievi\u010d and Andrej Pakalenka, journalists associated with the BAR24 and Intex Press media in Baranavi\u010dy, to 14 and 12 years in prison after finding them guilty of high treason, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported. Janukievi\u010d was ordered to pay 135,000 rubels (\u20ac40,000) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":177460,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-177456","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBaranavi\u010dy-based journalists sentenced to 14, 12 years in prison on high treason charges | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 27, Pozirk. 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