Journalist couple Sniazhana Inanets and Aliaksandr Lychauka punished with home confinement

Accord­ing to the court deci­sion, Snyazhana Inanets will serve 2 years in home con­fine­ment, Ali­ak­san­dr Lychauka’s sen­tence is one year longer. After the ver­dict was pro­nounced, the spous­es were released in the court­room.

Ali­ak­san­dr Lychau­ka and Sni­azhana Inanets were arrest­ed and crim­i­nal­ly charged on 6 Octo­ber 2022. The human rights com­mu­ni­ty rec­og­nized them as polit­i­cal pris­on­ers.

Before his arrest, Lychau­ka worked for The Vil­lage media spe­cial­iz­ing in local his­to­ry jour­nal­ism. Sni­azhana Inanets was pre­vi­ous­ly a mem­ber of the TUT.BY team, but after it had been shut down by the author­i­ties, she worked for the Onlin­er media out­let.

The fol­low­ing jour­nal­ists are in jail at the moment:

Kat­siary­na Andreye­va
Ihar Losik
Kse­nia Lut­ski­na
Andrei Ali­ak­san­drau
Dzia­n­is Ivashyn
Andrej Pachobut (Andrzej Poc­zobut)
Mary­na Zolata­va, tut by
Liud­mi­la Chek­ina, tut by
Valer­i­ja Kast­si­u­go­va, edi­tor of “Belaru­sian Year­book”, ana­lyst
Ali­ak­san­dr Ivulin, edi­tor of Tribuna.by
Yahor Martsi­novich, Nasha Niva
Andrei Skurko, Nasha Niva
Iri­na Lew­shy­na, direc­tor, edi­tor-in-chief of Bela­PAN
Dzmit­ry Navazhy­law, ex-direc­tor of Bela­PAN
Genadz Mazhei­ka, jour­nal­ist of “Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da in Belarus”
Iry­na Slau­nika­va
Andrei Kuznechyk, jour­nal­ist RFE/RL
Siarhei Sat­suk, edi­tor of Ej.by
Yury Hantsare­vich, Intex-press
Dzmit­ry Luk­sha, cor­re­spon­dent “Khabar 24 TV”
Kanstantsin Zalatykh, direc­tor of the news­pa­per “Belorusy i Rynok”
Ales (Ali­ak­san­dr) Liu­bianchuk
Yury Hlad­chuk, ABW.BY 
Ivan Muraueu
Pavel Mazhe­j­ka, Hrod­na
Yauhen Merkis, Homiel
Sni­azhana Inanets
Ali­ak­san­dr Lychau­ka
Dzmit­ry Sem­chanka, ex-jour­nal­ist ONT TV
Andrei Famin, edi­tor of small-cir­cu­la­tion news­pa­pers “Ves­nik”
Larysa Shchyrako­va, Homiel
Siarhei Chyhryn, Slonim

Media work­ers behind bars. Cur­rent post address­es