{"id":42943,"date":"2022-07-14T13:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lengthy-prison-term-for-journalist-indicative-of-intensifying-political-terror-husband-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lengthy-prison-term-for-journalist-indicative-of-intensifying-political-terror-husband-says","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/42943\/","title":{"rendered":"Lengthy prison term for journalist indicative of intensifying political terror, husband says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>July 14, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> The eight-year prison sentence handed down on journalist Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachva\u0142ava) shows &#8220;how the degree of political terror is growing in Belarus,&#8221; said husband Ihar Ilja\u0161, a political analyst.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Ilja\u0161 attended the closing session. He noted that his wife &#8220;took the verdict with calm dignity. She smiled ironically when the sentence was announced. Then she sadly joked that she was given longer sentence than Solzhenitsyn had received under Stalin,&#8221; he noted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t He does not know on what the high treason charge against his wife was grounded. The judge declared the journalist &#8220;guilty of transferring state secrets to a foreign country.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Andrejevaa worked for a foreign media outlet, specializing in investigative journalism, Ilja\u0161 said, noting that the charge stemmed from one of her old reports. &#8220;Two years ago, these actions were not perceived as a crime of revealing state secrets, otherwise she would have been charged several years ago, not now.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t According to him, state media journalists were not present in the courtroom. Authorities may have decided to maintain information vacuum from the start, because &#8220;propaganda would find it hard to cast Kacia as an enemy, no matter how much they wanted it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Ilja\u0161 noted that the judges and prosecutors &#8220;understood perfectly well\u201d that they were involved in illegal politically motivated persecution, noting that their names were not mentioned as the judge read the verdict. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it is a common practice, but as a journalist I have never encountered anything like that,&#8221; he added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;A few years ago, Belarusians joked that judges would soon conduct trials in balaclavas,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So far it hasn&#8217;t come to that. But they have learned how to hide the protagonists as much as possible during political trials.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Andrejeva intends to appeal the verdict. Her husband described it as &#8220;retaliation for her professional activities.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re in hell, but we&#8217;re not going to give up. We will stand up to it,&#8221; he added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On July 13, Andrejeva was sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of high treason. She is currently serving a prison sentence on charges widely believed to be politically motivated and may spend a total of eight years and three months in prison.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t She was arrested together with her colleague Darja \u010culcova in November 2020 while covering the violent dispersal of a protest rally in downtown Minsk. In February 2021, both journalists were sentenced to two years in prison for alleged violation of public order. Human rights groups declared them political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 14, BPN. The eight-year prison sentence handed down on journalist Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachva\u0142ava) shows &#8220;how the degree of political terror is growing in Belarus,&#8221; said husband Ihar Ilja\u0161, a political analyst. Ilja\u0161 attended the closing session. He noted that his wife &#8220;took the verdict with calm dignity. She smiled ironically when the sentence was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-42943","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lengthy prison term for journalist indicative of intensifying political terror, husband says | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 14, BPN. 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