Belsat journalists

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were detained on November 15, 2020, during a live broadcast from the commemoration of the deceased Belarusian activist Roman Bandarenka.

According to the version of the investigation, the traffic of 13 bus routes, three trolleybus and three tram routes was stopped due to the stream that the journalists conducted from one of the neighboring high-rise buildings.

The journalist was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment on the charge of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."

In April 2022, it became known that a new criminal case was opened against Ekaterina Andreeva under the article "Treason to the State".

On July 13, she was sentenced to 8 years and 3 months of imprisonment, taking into account the punishment previously assigned by the court of Frunzen district of Minsk.

The trial was held behind closed doors.

It is still unknown on the basis of which events a new case was opened against Kateryna.

The court found the journalist guilty "of handing over state secrets to a foreign organization, to a foreign state."

Andreyeva filed an appeal against the sentence, while she remains in Gomel pre-trial detention center No. 3, where she has been since the start of a new investigation in February 2022.

The Supreme Court will hear her appeal on September 20.

According to her relatives, her correspondence was severely restricted - letters and messages only come from her closest relatives.

Daria Chultsova, who was detained and tried together with Andreyeva, was not charged with any new charges, she served her term in the Goml women's colony.