{"id":45413,"date":"2023-01-20T14:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/belapans-jailed-journalists-blacklisted-as-extremists\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"belapans-jailed-journalists-blacklisted-as-extremists","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45413\/","title":{"rendered":"BelaPAN\u2019s jailed journalists blacklisted as extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>January 20, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> The Ministry of Internal Affairs has added 39 people, including convicted <span>BelaPAN<\/span> journalists, to its list of \u201cpersons involved in extremist activity,\u201d taking their total to 2,350 names.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In October 2022, judge Via\u010das\u0142a\u016d Tulejka of the Minsk Regional Court sentenced the media company\u2019s CEO and editor in chief Iryna Le\u016d\u0161yna to four years in prison. The previous CEO, D\u017amitryj Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d, was given six years; former deputy CEO Andrej Alaksandra\u016d, 14 years; his wife Iryna Z\u0142obina, nine years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The judge also fined Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d 22,400 rubels (some $8,900), Z\u0142obina 25,600 rubels and Alaksandra\u016d 32,000 rubels.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities accused them of establishing an extremist group (Alaksandra\u016d, Le\u016d\u0161yna, Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d), treason (Alaksandra\u016d, Z\u0142obina), tax evasion (Alaksandra\u016d, Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d), and organization of actions grossly disturbing public order (Alaksandra\u016d and Z\u0142obina). Human rights groups consider all four political prisoners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On January 6, The Supreme Court upheld the long prison sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, BPN. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has added 39 people, including convicted BelaPAN journalists, to its list of \u201cpersons involved in extremist activity,\u201d taking their total to 2,350 names. In October 2022, judge Via\u010das\u0142a\u016d Tulejka of the Minsk Regional Court sentenced the media company\u2019s CEO and editor in chief Iryna Le\u016d\u0161yna to four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45413","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>BelaPAN\u2019s jailed journalists blacklisted as extremists | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 20, BPN. 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