{"id":99847,"date":"2024-08-09T15:41:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T12:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/99847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"pacobut-would-like-to-be-able-to-go-to-belarus-if-released-polish-official","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/99847\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa\u010dobut would like to come back to Belarus if released \u2013 Polish official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

August 9, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Andrej Pa\u010dobut (Andrzej Poczobut), a journalist and Polish minority activist imprisoned by Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka’s regime, “does not want to leave Belarus without being able to return there someday,” said<\/a> Ma\u0142gorzata Paprocka, head of the Chancellery of the Polish President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prisoner’s position needs to be taken “very seriously,” she told TVN24<\/em>, commenting on efforts to negotiate Pa\u010dobut’s release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paprocka said there are “channels of contact” with Pa\u010dobut and President Andrzej Duda very much cares about his release. She hoped that the issue will be successfully resolved soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em> contributor Pa\u010dobut, also known as an activist of the unregistered Union of Poles in Belarus (UPB), has been in custody since March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was arrested after masked police officers raided his home in Hrodna on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the same day, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office announced that it had instituted criminal proceedings against UPB leader Andzelika Borys and \u201cother individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said that the criminal case had been opened under Part Three of the Criminal Code\u2019s Article 130, which penalizes incitement to racial, ethnic, religious or other social hatred and \u201cthe rehabilitation of Nazism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe individuals, positioning themselves as members of the above mentioned union, have organized and held a number of illegal mass events with the involvement of under-18-year-olds in the city of Hrodna and in other localities in the [Hrodna] region since 2018 with a view to honoring members of anti-Soviet gangs that were active during and after the [1941-1945] Great Patriotic War, committed robberies, murdered Belarus\u2019 civilians, destroyed property. Their actions were aimed at rehabilitating Nazism and justifying the genocide of the Belarusian people,\u201d the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, prosecutors also accused Pa\u010dobut of calling for sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Pa\u010dobut refused to petition \u0141uka\u0161enka for pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Committee for State Security (KGB) put him on the list of \u201cpersons involved in terrorist activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of five defendants in the case, Pa\u010dobut is the only one to remain in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Polish security chief: Poczobut\u2019s name was mentioned during negotiations on prisoner exchange<\/h3>\n
August 7, Pozirk. The name of journalist Andrzej Poczobut (Andrej Pa\u010dobut) "came up" during negotiations on the recent major US-Russia prisoner swap, Jacek Siewiera, head of Poland's National Security Bureau, has told TVP Info. Such talks are never easy, he …<\/div>\n \n