“On Monday, October 11, the investigation nevertheless brought an accusation against our colleague Gennady Mozheiko.
This conclusion can be drawn from the fact that the journalist was not released, and according to Belarusian laws, the charge must be brought no later than 10 days after the arrest.
(Mozheiko was detained on October 1), ”the newspaper's website says.
At the end of September, the website of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus was blocked in Belarus.
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Vladimir Sungorkin, said that the blocking of the site took place after a note about a resident of Minsk who died in a shootout with KGB officers.
After that, Sungorkin said that the journalist of the Belarusian version of the publication Gennady Mozheiko is in the detention center on Akrestsin Street in Minsk, and his house was searched.
The Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that the journalist was detained on the territory of the republic in the framework of criminal cases on “inciting racial, national or religious hatred or hatred” and “insulting a representative of the authorities”.
On October 5, Komsomolskaya Pravda decided to close its representative office in Belarus.