{"id":44792,"date":"2022-12-06T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/belarusian-journalist-loses-extremism-conviction-appeal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"belarusian-journalist-loses-extremism-conviction-appeal","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44792\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian journalist loses extremism conviction appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>December 6, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Belarusian journalist Iryna S\u0142a\u016dnikava and upheld her sentence of five years in prison, <span>Belsat<\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p> The Homiel Regional Court sentenced S\u0142a\u016dnikava, who worked at Polish television channel <span>TVP<\/span>, to five years in prison on August 3. Judge Mika\u0142aj Dola found her guilty of active participation in group actions grossly disturbing public order and disrupting traffic contrary to police orders. Dola also convicted her of leading an extremist formation.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki criticized the sentence, threatening retaliation \u201cat the international level.\u201d Human rights groups said her persecution was politically motivated. Belarus has at least 32 imprisoned journalists, says the Belarusian Association of Journalists, an&nbsp;independent NGO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, BPN. The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Belarusian journalist Iryna S\u0142a\u016dnikava and upheld her sentence of five years in prison, Belsat reports. The Homiel Regional Court sentenced S\u0142a\u016dnikava, who worked at Polish television channel TVP, to five years in prison on August 3. Judge Mika\u0142aj Dola found her guilty of active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44792","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>Belarusian journalist loses extremism conviction appeal | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 6, BPN. 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