{"id":2473,"date":"2023-08-19T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=2473"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"journalist-mierkis-appeal-hearing-to-be-closed-to-public","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/2473\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Mierkis&#8217; appeal hearing to be closed to public"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 23,&nbsp;<em>BPN<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by jailed journalist Ja\u016dhien Mierkis behind closed doors on August 29, the electronic court&#8217;s schedule says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge U\u0142adzimir \u010carava\u010d will preside over the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 30, the Homiel Regional Court sentenced Mierkis to four years in prison on extremism-related charges and confiscated his photo and video equipment and data storage devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mierkis had cooperated with independent media outlets, such as the&nbsp;<em>Belsat TV<\/em>&nbsp;channel, which was banned as an &#8220;extremist group&#8221; after the 2020 protests against Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, he stopped working as a journalist and focused on local history projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mierkis was arrested in September 2022 after his apartment and his father\u2019s house were searched by authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human rights activists consider him a political prisoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 23,&nbsp;BPN.&nbsp;The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by jailed journalist Ja\u016dhien Mierkis behind closed doors on August 29, the electronic court&#8217;s schedule says. Judge U\u0142adzimir \u010carava\u010d will preside over the proceedings. On May 30, the Homiel Regional Court sentenced Mierkis to four years in prison on extremism-related charges and confiscated his photo and video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[],"class_list":["post-2473","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Journalist Mierkis&#039; appeal hearing to be closed to public | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 23,&nbsp;BPN.&nbsp;The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by jailed journalist Ja\u016dhien Mierkis behind closed doors on August 29, the electronic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/2473\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Journalist Mierkis&#039; 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