Journalist Tatsiana Karaviankova’s property was seized in Belarus

On Octo­ber 4, the Min­sk City Agency for State Reg­is­tra­tion and Land Cadas­tre seized the real estate of jour­nal­ist Tat­siana Kar­a­vianko­va.

Tat­siana Kar­a­vianko­va

As Tat­siana wrote on Face­book, the seizure was made based on a deci­sion of the Main Inves­tiga­tive Depart­ment of the Cen­tral Office of the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee dat­ed Sep­tem­ber 26, 2024. The doc­u­ment she received from the cadas­tral agency does not spec­i­fy the rea­son for this per­se­cu­tion.

Tat­siana Kar­a­vianko­va stat­ed that she had con­tact­ed the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee for clar­i­fi­ca­tion, but had not yet received a reply to her let­ter.

The seized prop­er­ty is a one-third share in a house that she joint­ly owns with rel­a­tives.

Tat­siana Kar­a­vianko­va is a well-known Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist. She worked for a long time as a polit­i­cal and inter­na­tion­al ana­lyst for the inde­pen­dent news agency Bela­PAN. She is a lau­re­ate of sev­er­al jour­nal­ism awards. In 2021 she was forced to leave Belarus and cur­rent­ly lives and works abroad.