Brest Region

In ear­ly Decem­ber, the Brest branch of Vias­na report­ed that numer­ous employ­ees and jour­nal­ists of the recent­ly defunct pri­vate news­pa­per Intex-Press were appre­hend­ed in Baranavichy.

Free­lance jour­nal­ist Dani­il Palian­s­ki is believed to have been detained on Sep­tem­ber 19 after his return from Rus­sia. This is the day when con­tact with him was lost.

Siarhei Skulavets was based in Ivat­se­vichy, where he was involved in busi­ness activ­i­ties and col­lab­o­rat­ed with the Bel­sat TV chan­nel. In June 2023, he was informed that anoth­er raid on jour­nal­ists was antic­i­pat­ed. Con­se­quent­ly, Siarhei relo­cat­ed with his fam­i­ly to the Unit­ed States.

Yauhen Nikalayevich’s tri­al is set for Sep­tem­ber 26. Back in 2020, he worked for the region­al pub­li­ca­tion Media-Polesye and cov­ered the protests that broke out in Pin­sk after the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. The jour­nal­ist was then severe­ly beat­en dur­ing an arrest.

The sched­ule of the Brest Region­al Court for May 31 indi­cat­ed that an indi­vid­ual named Ale­na Tsi­mashchuk would be tried on three charges: dis­cred­it­ing the Repub­lic of Belarus, incite­ment to hos­til­i­ty or dis­cord, and par­tic­i­pa­tion in an extrem­ist for­ma­tion.

The web­sites reform.by and media-polesye.by were tak­en down on April 15. These are the first cas­es of appli­ca­tion of the new order of the Exec­u­tive and Ana­lyt­i­cal Cen­ter of April 4, 2024, which pro­vides for the can­cel­la­tion of domain names of online pub­li­ca­tions includ­ed in the Repub­li­can List of Extrem­ist Mate­ri­als

On 5 April 2024, the Stolin Dis­trict Court announced the ver­dict in the crim­i­nal case against blog­ger and for­mer edi­tor of the news­pa­per Vech­erniy Stolin Ali­ak­san­dr Ihnat­siuk.