{"id":44901,"date":"2022-12-14T00:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/osce-official-calls-on-belarus-to-free-former-journalist\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"osce-official-calls-on-belarus-to-free-former-journalist","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44901\/","title":{"rendered":"OSCE official calls on Belarus to free former journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>December 14, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe\u2019s media freedom representative Teresa Ribeiro has called on Belarus to release former reporter \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe detention of former journalist \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova in Belarus and the lack of information about the circumstances of the case are deeply worrying,\u201d she tweeted on December 13.<\/p>\n<p> Authorities accused \u0160\u010dyrakova, a former journalist based in Homiel, of discrediting Belarus, her family told <span>BPN <\/span>on December 13. She may face up to four years in prison, if convicted.<\/p>\n<p> Police arrested \u0160\u010dyrakova on December 6 and took her 15-year-old son Sviatas\u0142a\u016d to the Homiel district social service center. She had stopped working as journalist in 2021, and was into ethnographic photography in the last few months before her arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus has at least 32 imprisoned reporters, says the Belarusian Association of Journalists, an independent NGO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 14, BPN. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe\u2019s media freedom representative Teresa Ribeiro has called on Belarus to release former reporter \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova. \u201cThe detention of former journalist \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova in Belarus and the lack of information about the circumstances of the case are deeply worrying,\u201d she tweeted on December 13. 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