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Katsyaryna Andreeva
Katsyaryna Andreeva (Belarusian: Кацярына Андрэева; Russian: Катерина Андреева; real name: Katsyaryna Andreevna Bakhvalava; Belarusian: Кацярына Андрэеўна Бахвалава; born November 2, 1993) is a Belarusian journalist. She worked for the television network Belsat TV. She broadcast the event from the Square of Changes in Minsk where Raman Bandarenka was beaten to death in 2020.
She was arrested on site on November 15, 2020. She was sentenced to two years in prison. In 2022, she was sentenced to am additional eight years in prison on charges of "state treason", which Amnesty International called bogus.
She was born in Minsk in a family of journalists. She studied for about two and a half years in Minsk State Linguistic University, then she moved to Spain. She taught English there for two years. Then she came back home, got to work for the newspaper Nasha Niva as a journalist. In 2017, she moved to Belsat TV.
Katsyaryna Andreeva with Ihar Ilyash wrote the book Belarusian Donbas in 2020. The book is about how the Belarusian people and organizations take part in the war in Donbas for the Russian separatist forces side. The Belarusian regime deemed it to be extremist and in 2021, via court decision, banned the book and its content countrywide.
Katsyaryna was first arrested in 2017 in Orsha. On September 12, 2020, she was arrested by OMON for a live broadcast of a women's march in Minsk and was locked up for three days.
Together with journalist Darya Chultsova, she was a suspect in a criminal case on organizing actions that attack public order. On November 15, 2020, in Minsk, both broadcast the event of a cruel raid of the Militsiya and its affiliates at the Square of Changes, the place where Raman Bandarenka was beaten to death and the people peacefully stood to support the dead one there. She was not freed after the arrest at the square. She was moved to a prison in Zhodzina, where she was held until court trial. On November 24, 2020, ten organizations, including the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, made a joint statement and recognized her as a political prisoner.
At a Minsk court hearing led by the judge Natalia Buguk on February 18, 2021, Andreeva und Chultsova were sentenced to serve two years in prison for pushing 2020 Belarusian protests. The public prosecutor was Alina Kasyanchyk, the investigator was Ihar Kurylovich. On April 23, 2021, Minsk City Court declined an appeal on the sentence.
In 2022, Andreeva was sentenced to additional eight years in prison on charges of "state treason", which Amnesty International called bogus.
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Katsyaryna Andreeva
Katsyaryna Andreeva (Belarusian: Кацярына Андрэева; Russian: Катерина Андреева; real name: Katsyaryna Andreevna Bakhvalava; Belarusian: Кацярына Андрэеўна Бахвалава; born November 2, 1993) is a Belarusian journalist. She worked for the television network Belsat TV. She broadcast the event from the Square of Changes in Minsk where Raman Bandarenka was beaten to death in 2020.
She was arrested on site on November 15, 2020. She was sentenced to two years in prison. In 2022, she was sentenced to am additional eight years in prison on charges of "state treason", which Amnesty International called bogus.
She was born in Minsk in a family of journalists. She studied for about two and a half years in Minsk State Linguistic University, then she moved to Spain. She taught English there for two years. Then she came back home, got to work for the newspaper Nasha Niva as a journalist. In 2017, she moved to Belsat TV.
Katsyaryna Andreeva with Ihar Ilyash wrote the book Belarusian Donbas in 2020. The book is about how the Belarusian people and organizations take part in the war in Donbas for the Russian separatist forces side. The Belarusian regime deemed it to be extremist and in 2021, via court decision, banned the book and its content countrywide.
Katsyaryna was first arrested in 2017 in Orsha. On September 12, 2020, she was arrested by OMON for a live broadcast of a women's march in Minsk and was locked up for three days.
Together with journalist Darya Chultsova, she was a suspect in a criminal case on organizing actions that attack public order. On November 15, 2020, in Minsk, both broadcast the event of a cruel raid of the Militsiya and its affiliates at the Square of Changes, the place where Raman Bandarenka was beaten to death and the people peacefully stood to support the dead one there. She was not freed after the arrest at the square. She was moved to a prison in Zhodzina, where she was held until court trial. On November 24, 2020, ten organizations, including the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, made a joint statement and recognized her as a political prisoner.
At a Minsk court hearing led by the judge Natalia Buguk on February 18, 2021, Andreeva und Chultsova were sentenced to serve two years in prison for pushing 2020 Belarusian protests. The public prosecutor was Alina Kasyanchyk, the investigator was Ihar Kurylovich. On April 23, 2021, Minsk City Court declined an appeal on the sentence.
In 2022, Andreeva was sentenced to additional eight years in prison on charges of "state treason", which Amnesty International called bogus.