Siarhei Satsuk Set Free! DETAILS

The offi­cial charges against the jour­nal­ist have nev­er been filed.

— For the inves­ti­ga­tion to work with­out pres­sure, a deci­sion was made to release me, — they told me today.

Siarhei says, in the run up to his deten­tion, he received mate­ri­als for a new jour­nal­is­tic inves­ti­ga­tion and decid­ed to work with them.

— On Sun­day, my Pol­ish col­league and I dis­cussed some mate­ri­als on the new pres­i­den­tial hos­pi­tal. And on Wednes­day I was detained — says Siarhei. Still, he empha­sizes, inves­ti­ga­tors warned him sev­er­al times that his com­ments would be unde­sir­able.

The jour­nal­ist remains a sus­pect in the case. He also made a non-dis­clo­sure state­ment.

Siarhei  says, he learned about the sol­i­dar­i­ty cam­paign from an attor­ney who vis­it­ed him twice in jail, and is very grate­ful for it.  

Now the jour­nal­ist is at home with his fam­i­ly.

Inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Sat­suk, chief edi­tor of EJ.BY, was arrest­ed by the offi­cers of the Depart­ment of Finan­cial Inves­ti­ga­tions of the State Con­trol Com­mit­tee on March 25 on sus­pi­cion of receiv­ing a bribe. On March 27, the EJ.BY staff were inter­ro­gat­ed, and Sat­suk was trans­ferred to inves­tiga­tive iso­la­tor SIZO 1.

On March 31, the State Con­trol Com­mit­tee insti­gat­ed a crim­i­nal case against him under arti­cle 430 part 2 of the Crim­i­nal Code (receiv­ing a bribe). Inves­ti­ga­tion claims, Sat­suk received 5 thou­sand dol­lars as a bribe for writ­ing an arti­cle “against com­peti­tors”.