{"id":43718,"date":"2022-09-13T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/un-special-rapporteur-urged-to-stand-up-for-jailed-belarusian-journalist\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"un-special-rapporteur-urged-to-stand-up-for-jailed-belarusian-journalist","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43718\/","title":{"rendered":"UN special rapporteur urged to stand up for jailed Belarusian journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>September 13, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) has called on the UN\u2019s special rapporteur for freedom of opinion, Irene Khan, to stand up for journalist Dzianis Iva\u0161yn.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Belarusian Association of Journalists calls on you to urgently react to this message and appeal to the government of Belarus to immediately stop the political persecution of journalist Dzianis Iva\u0161yn,\u201d it wrote.<\/p>\n<p> Iva\u0161yn\u2019s prosecution under criminal articles against meddling in police work and treason is \u201ca gross violation of his freedom of speech,\u201d it noted. <\/p>\n<p> BAJ said the jailed journalist had been punished with solitary confinement multiple times.<\/p>\n<p> Iva\u0161yn was a volunteer editor at Ukrainiane&#8217;s&nbsp;<span>InfromNapalm<\/span>. He also cooperated with Belarus&#8217;&nbsp;independent weekly <span>Novy \u010cas<\/span>. He investigated Russian meddling in Belarus, construction at a Soviet-era massacre&nbsp;site, and the controversial recruitment of former Ukrainian riot police officers by Belarus. <\/p>\n<p> He was arrested on March 12, 2021. Later that month, the Committee for the State Security (KGB) claimed that he worked for Ukraine\u2019s special services and caused damage to Belarus&#8217;&nbsp;national security.<\/p>\n<p> The journalist went on trial at&nbsp;the Hrodna Regional Court on August 15, behind closed doors. The court is expected to deliver its verdict&nbsp;on September 14.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 27 media workers remain behind bars in Belarus, according to BAJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 13, BPN. The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) has called on the UN\u2019s special rapporteur for freedom of opinion, Irene Khan, to stand up for journalist Dzianis Iva\u0161yn. \u201cThe Belarusian Association of Journalists calls on you to urgently react to this message and appeal to the government of Belarus to immediately stop the political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43718","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>UN special rapporteur urged to stand up for jailed Belarusian journalist | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 13, BPN. 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