{"id":45586,"date":"2023-02-02T13:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/business-monthlys-director-charged-after-eight-months-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"business-monthlys-director-charged-after-eight-months-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45586\/","title":{"rendered":"Business monthly&#8217;s director charged after eight months in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>February 2, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Authorities informed Kanstancin Za\u0142atych, director of the newspaper <span>Belorusy i Rynok<\/span>, of serious criminal charges brought against him, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) said. The charges, however, have not been made public.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Za\u0142atych has been in custody for eight and a half months for allegedly inciting hatred. The case against him is soon be transferred to the prosecutor for further referral to court, BAJ said. He will remain at Detention Center No 1 on Va\u0142adarskaha Street in Minsk during the trial.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Za\u0142atych&#8217;s lawyer would not disclose the charges because he had signed a non-disclosure agreement. All defense attorneys involved in politically-motivated cases are required to sign it, BAJ noted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Committee for State Security (KGB) arrested Za\u0142atych in May 2022 along with editor in chief Andrej Aleksandrovi\u010d and accountant Julija Kachno.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities freed Aleksandrovi\u010d and Kachno later that day, while Za\u0142atych was placed in pre-trial detention. Human rights groups declared him a political prisoner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In July 2022, the information ministry blocked access to the newspaper\u2019s website <span>belmarket.by<\/span> because of alleged links to content blacklisted as extremist and unblocked it in late December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In December, authorities also revoked the registration of the print version of <span>Belorusy i Rynok<\/span>, which had been published for 32 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <span>Belorusy i Rynok<\/span> was founded in December 1990 as the <span>Belorusskiy Rynok<\/span> weekly. It was renamed in September 2005, after Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka had prohibited private entities from using the words \u201cnational\u201d and \u201cBelarusian\u201d (Belorusskiy). It came out once a month in the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2, BPN. Authorities informed Kanstancin Za\u0142atych, director of the newspaper Belorusy i Rynok, of serious criminal charges brought against him, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) said. The charges, however, have not been made public. Za\u0142atych has been in custody for eight and a half months for allegedly inciting hatred. The case against him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45586","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>Business monthly&#039;s director charged after eight months in custody | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 2, BPN. 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