{"id":47286,"date":"2023-06-16T17:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/supreme-court-throws-out-journalists-appeal-against-prison-sentence\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"supreme-court-throws-out-journalists-appeal-against-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47286\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court throws out journalist&#8217;s appeal against prison sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>June 16, <span>BPN.<\/span> <\/b>The Supreme Court in Minsk has rejected journalist Hienad\u017a Ma\u017eejka&#8217;s appeal against sentence, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) reports.<\/p>\n<p> The supreme justice who issued the ruling, U\u0142adzimir \u010carava\u010d, has never overruled lower courts&#8217; decisions on &#8220;political&#8221; cases, the BAJ said.<\/p>\n<p> Ma\u017eejka was arrested in October 2021, after he interviewed a classmate of an IT professional who died in a gunfight with KGB agents during a raid on his apartment.<\/p>\n<p> Fierce propaganda criticism of the interview prompted <span>Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi<\/span>, the newspaper that published it, to close down.<\/p>\n<p> According to investigators, Ma\u017eejka wrote \u201cnegative, obscene and unacceptable\u201d comments about Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p> On March 23, Minsk City Court sentenced the journalist to three years in prison for inciting hatred and insulting the head of state.<\/p>\n<p>Given that every day in custody counts as a day and a half in jail, he has a little over a year to serve, according to the BAJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 16, BPN. The Supreme Court in Minsk has rejected journalist Hienad\u017a Ma\u017eejka&#8217;s appeal against sentence, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) reports. The supreme justice who issued the ruling, U\u0142adzimir \u010carava\u010d, has never overruled lower courts&#8217; decisions on &#8220;political&#8221; cases, the BAJ said. Ma\u017eejka was arrested in October 2021, after he interviewed a classmate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47286","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>Supreme Court throws out journalist&#039;s appeal against prison sentence | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 16, BPN. 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