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What happened to Katsiaryna Andreyeva and Darya Chultsova honoured as PRIX EUROPA European Journalist of the Year 2021?
On 3 September 2022 Darya Chultsova was released after serving a full two-year sentence in the women’s penal colony in Gomel, south-western Belarus. At least one good news…
The situation is quite different for Katsiaryna Andreyeva who was sentenced to eight years in jail for treason in July 2022 and got a new prison term on top of one she was already serving.
On November 15, 2020 27 year-old Katsiaryna Andreyeva and her 23-year old colleague and camerawoman Darya Chultsova live-streamed for five hours a protest against the authoritarian Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko. Hundreds of people had gathered to commemorate Raman Bandarenka—an activist beaten to death, allegedly by plain clothed police officers — and demand justice for his death. The two journalists were found supposedly guilty of “organising activities violating public order” by a district court in Minsk on 18 February 2021 and sentenced to two years in a labour colony.