Ihar Karnei

For­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er and ex-Radio Svabo­da jour­nal­ist Ihar Karnei has said that after his release and forced removal from Belarus, he found him­self abroad with­out valid doc­u­ments con­firm­ing his legal sta­tus.

The pro-gov­ern­ment TV chan­nel ONT con­tin­ues its series of broad­casts “about employ­ees of the Amer­i­can media”. After the episodes about Andrei Kuznechyk and Ihar Losik, the pro­pa­gan­dists announced a video fea­tur­ing free­lance jour­nal­ist Ihar Karnei. It will be aired on the evening of Jan­u­ary 16.

On Decem­ber 13, the Shk­lou Dis­trict Court found jour­nal­ist and polit­i­cal pris­on­er Ihar Karnei guilty of per­sis­tent dis­obe­di­ence to the demands of the prison admin­is­tra­tion. Judge Ali­ak­san­dr Tarakanau sen­tenced the jour­nal­ist to an addi­tion­al 10 months in prison.

Ihar Karnei, a jour­nal­ist sen­tenced to three years in prison, is cur­rent­ly serv­ing his sen­tence at Cor­rec­tion­al Facil­i­ty No. 17 in Shk­lou. He is held in the Secure Hous­ing Unit most of the time. Karnei’s new tri­al is sched­uled for Decem­ber 11. He is accused of per­sis­tent dis­obe­di­ence to the demands of the prison admin­is­tra­tion.