{"id":55185,"date":"2023-12-13T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T09:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=55185"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"new-arrest-in-mahilou-as-police-clamp-down-on-remaining-local-journalists","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/55185\/","title":{"rendered":"New arrest in Mahilo\u016d as police clamp down on remaining local journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ales_sabaleuski.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ales_sabaleuski.jpg 744w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ales_sabaleuski-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n      <div class=\"block-image__descr\">\n\n        Ale\u015b Sabale\u016dski a few years before his arrest\n    <\/div>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Belarusian Association of Journalists)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 13, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Police arrested journalist Ale\u015b Sabale\u016dski in Mahilo\u016d on December 12, weeks after two local media outlets were branded extremist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabale\u016dski has not been released and is said to be held at the local detention center, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported citing his friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 29, the Committee for State Security (KGB) declared <a href=\"https:\/\/mogilev.media\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mogilev.media\/<\/a> and <em>6TV Bielarus<\/em>, a YouTube news channel, extremist groups. Investigators may be suspecting Sabale\u016dski of cooperating with one of these outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police already searched his home in December 2021, as well as the office of the <em>Mahilo\u016dski Rehijon<\/em> website. Sabale\u016dski and two other journalists, Ja\u016dhien H\u0142ushkou and Barys Vyrvi\u010d, were questioned as witnesses in a criminal case. Police returned them confiscated equipment in October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have intensified the crackdown on local media in the run-up to the February 25 parliamentary and local elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 6, police raided Vyrvi\u010d\u2019s home in Bialynichy, Mahilo\u016d region, seizing all electronic devices found there. Vyrvi\u010d was released after an interrogation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most journalists associated with <em>6TV Bielarus <\/em>have fled the country for fear of persecution and continue producing daily news shows from abroad. In August 2021, KGB officers forced the channel\u2019s IT specialist Kanstancin Latu\u0161kin to give away passwords to the <em>Mahilo\u016dski Rehijon<\/em> administration dashboard and sign a pledge to cooperate, threatening to open a terrorism case against him if he refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latu\u0161kin left Belarus after the detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 13, Pozirk. Police arrested journalist Ale\u015b Sabale\u016dski in Mahilo\u016d on December 12, weeks after two local media outlets were branded extremist groups. Sabale\u016dski has not been released and is said to be held at the local detention center, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported citing his friend. 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