Silnye Novosti journalist Nadzeya Puzhynskaya to serve 14 days of jail. Her trial was not announced to public

On Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 3, Homel police detained edi­tor-in-chief of Sil­nye Novosti Anna Yak­sh­tas and her hus­band Dzia­n­is, who also works in the media out­let.  Nadzeya Puzhyn­skaya, togeth­er with Dia­n­is’ fam­i­ly arrived at the deten­tion cen­ter to bring a care pack­age for her col­leagues.

«Some­one called her, and she stepped aside and dis­ap­peared. Lat­er she called from a police sta­tion to inform that she was in Sovet­s­ki police depart­ment.  Then we learned that Nadzeya was detained under arti­cle 23.34 of the Admin­is­tra­tive code (Vio­la­tion of the order of orga­niz­ing or hold­ing mass events),» own­er of the por­tal Piotr Kuz­ni­at­sou said ear­li­er.

Nobody knew what exact­ly she was charged with.

Today, on Octo­ber 6, Nadzeya was tried. We don’t know how and where the court ses­sion was held.  Nadzeya’s moth­er told the news to Sil­nye Novosti: She got a phone call from her daugh­ter who said she had received 14 days of jail. The jour­nal­ists who stayed in the court build­ing since ear­ly morn­ing, could not find infor­ma­tion about the hear­ing.

Anna Yak­sh­tas was giv­en a fine of 20 base val­ues today. She has under­aged chil­dren, and can’t serve admin­is­tra­tive jail terms by law.

Dzia­n­is Yak­sh­tas was sen­tenced to 15 days of jail yes­ter­day.