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The judge closed the trial to the public.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t \u0160\u010dyrakova has been in custody since December 2022. Human rights defenders say her persecution is politically motivated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t She had stopped working as a journalist in 2021 and was into ethnographic photography in the last few months before her arrest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t At least 36 media workers are behind bars in Belarus, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 28, BPN. The detention and trial of former journalist \u0141arysa \u0160\u010dyrakova who &#8220;faces up to seven years\u2019 imprisonment on trumped-up charges,&#8221; is unacceptable, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) said on Twitter. The Homiel Regional Court opened criminal proceedings against \u0160\u010dyrakova on July 27, accusing her of discrediting Belarus and promoting extremism for allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47791","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>International rights group slams trial of journalist \u0160\u010dyrakova as unacceptable | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 28, BPN. 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