Henadz Mazheika
journalist
Date of birth: 11 May 1982
Date of detention: 1 October 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 8
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Lukas Mandl, member of the European Parliament
Henadz Mazheika is a journalist with Komsomolskaya Pravda V Belarusi.
Mazheika was detained in Moscow on October 1, 2021. The detention is linked to an article he wrote for the newspaper, in which people how knew the deceased Andrei Zeltser positively characterized him.
The journalist faced formal charges on October 11, 2021.