A Ukrainian Journalist Pavel Sharoyka Tried behind Closed Doors for Espionage

Report­ed­ly, the jour­nal­ist is tried behind closed doors.

The spokesper­son failed to tell the date, when the tri­al was actu­al­ly start­ed, not­ing that more than 4,000 cas­es are regard­ed by courts in Belarus a day and that she can­not be aware of each tri­al.

It should be men­tioned that being the accred­it­ed cor­re­spon­dent of Ukrain­ian radio, Pavel Sharoy­ka was detained by the KGB on Octo­ber 25, 2017 and kept in the pre-tri­al KGB jail since then. The infor­ma­tion about the journalist’s deten­tion was dis­sem­i­nat­ed three weeks lat­er by Zurab Alasaniya, the Head of Nation­al Pub­lic TV and Radio Com­pa­ny of Ukraine, in Face­book.

The offi­cial KGB rep­re­sen­ta­tive Dzmit­ry Pabi­arzhyn not­ed dur­ing a brief­ing on Novem­ber 20th that Sharoy­ka acknowl­edged his affil­i­a­tion to the mil­i­tary intel­li­gence of Ukraine and work under cov­er in Belarus. Con­se­quent­ly, crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings were start­ed in rela­tion to him and he was tak­en into cus­tody.