{"id":193197,"date":"2026-06-24T18:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/193197\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:42:08","slug":"authorities-sell-exiled-journalists-summer-house","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/193197\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities sell exiled journalist\u2019s summer house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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June 24, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Authorities have auctioned off a dacha confiscated from Polish-based Belarusian journalist U\u0142adzimir Chilmanovi\u010d, human rights group Haradzienskaja Pravaabarona reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two people reportedly took part in the bidding contest, with the winner pledging 3,242 rubels ($1,150) for the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier all household appliances owned by Chilmanovi\u010d\u2019s family, in particular a refrigerator, a television set and a washing machine, were confiscated and sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 19, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported that authorities in Hrodna had put up Chilmanovi\u010d\u2019s apartment for auction again, lowering the asking price to 100,800 rubels ($36,000), after failing to sell it for 126,000 rubels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2024, the Supreme Court upheld a five-year prison sentence for Chilmanovi\u010d at a trial held without the defendant being present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two months before, a judge in Hrodna found the journalist guilty of facilitating extremism, apparently for working for media outlets critical of the Belarusian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities sealed his summer house and Hrodna apartment, preparing the properties for seizure. The judge also sentenced the journalist to a fine of 40,000 rubels (some $12,300).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators opened a case against Chilmanovi\u010d in March 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late 2023, law-enforcers searched his wife\u2019s apartment, where he had lived between 2014 and 2021, seizing a hard drive, books, newspapers and other items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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