Formerly imprisoned journalist Siarhei Hardzievich detained at border crossing

Alleged­ly, the for­mer jour­nal­ist for the Per­shy Rehi­jon pub­li­ca­tion had his phone exam­ined at the cross­ing and sub­se­quet­ly arrest­ed and sent to Brest tem­po­rary deten­tion cen­ter.
It is like­ly that Siarhei Hardzievich is accused of dis­tri­b­u­tion or stor­age of extrem­ist con­tent in his phone.

The jour­nal­ist pre­vi­ous­ly coop­er­at­ed with the inde­pen­dent Inter­net por­tal Per­shy Rehi­jon and report­ed from the town of Drahichyn.

On 2 August 2021 the Ivana­va Dis­trict Court found Siarhei Hardzievich guilty for insult­ing pub­lic offi­cial, as well as spread­ing libel and insult­ing the pres­i­dent.

The jour­nal­ist plead­ed not guilty and was sen­tenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison. He was rec­og­nized as a polit­i­cal pris­on­er.
Hardzievich was released at the end of Octo­ber 2022 after serv­ing his sen­tence.

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