{"id":45874,"date":"2023-02-27T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/journalists-trial-resumes-at-minsk-city-court\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"journalists-trial-resumes-at-minsk-city-court","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45874\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist&#8217;s trial resumes at Minsk City Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>February 27, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> The Minsk City Court has resumed hearings in a case against Hienad\u017a Ma\u017eejka, a former journalist with Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi, charged over his coverage of a shooting incident in Minsk, the court&#8217;s schedule says.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities accuse him of inciting hatred and insulting Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka. Ma\u017eejka has been on trial since December 1, 2022. After December 19, judge Ta\u0107ciana Falko\u016dskaja adjourned the trial for additional examinations, sources told BPN.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Ma\u017eejka has been in custody since October 2021 over an article he wrote on the 2021 shootout that left two people dead, IT engineer Andrej Zielcer and a KGB officer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The state-run media said the article cast Zielcer in a positive light. Although Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi took down the story, it did not stop the information ministry from blocking access to the newspaper\u2019s website. A ban on distribution eventually forced Russian-owned Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi to shut down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t At least 32 Belarusian media workers remain behind bars, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 27, BPN. The Minsk City Court has resumed hearings in a case against Hienad\u017a Ma\u017eejka, a former journalist with Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi, charged over his coverage of a shooting incident in Minsk, the court&#8217;s schedule says. Authorities accuse him of inciting hatred and insulting Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka. Ma\u017eejka has been on trial since December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45874","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>Journalist&#039;s trial resumes at Minsk City Court | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 27, BPN. 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