Andrzej Poczobut

Poland’s president Duda, Belarus opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya meeting in Warsaw
On December 9, Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya is on a working visit to Warsaw.
09.12.2021
Belarusian political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut recognised Journalist of Year 2021 by Polish magazine Press
Andrzej Poczobut, a Hrodna-based reporter for the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and Belarusian political prisoner of Polish descent, was awarded the title of Journalist of the Year 2021 at the Polish journalistic contest Grand Press. For the first time, he got the title of the Journalist of the Year in 2011. Then he was a prisoner of conscience too.
08.12.2021
Belarus authorities bar Polish diplomats from seeing jailed activists Andzelika Borys, Andrzej Poczobut
Andżelika Borys, the leader of the Union of Poles in Belarus, and Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish minority activist and journalist, have been behind bars since March. They are charged under Art. 130 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (‘inciting hostility’).
28.09.2021
Imprisoned Polish activist Andrzej Poczobut: ‘I will not ask for mercy even under pressure’
Andrzej Poczobut, a Hrodna-based journalist and and activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus, has been behind bars since late March. The Belarusian authorities accuse him of ‘inciting hostility’.
23.09.2021
Lukashenka’s stooge Vaskrasenski urges jailed Polish activist Poczobut to ask for mercy. Latter refuses
According to our own information, Pro-Lukashenka activist Yury Vaskrasenski has sent three letters to journalist and political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut, asking him to file a petition for pardon.
10.09.2021
Arrested activist of Poles’ Union in Belarus to remain in jail for another three months
The Belarusian authorities have extended the detention of political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut for the coming three months, human rights centre Viasna reports.
25.08.2021
Imprisoned leader of Poles’ Union agrees to leave for Poland, but Belarus authorities stalling
Andzelika Borys, Chairperson of the Union of Poles in Belarus, gave her consent to leave Belarus. Since being taken into custody, her condition has become acute, Belsat TV Director Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy says, referring to her own sources.
30.06.2021
Hrodna journalist Andrzej Poczobut gets COVID-19 behind bars
Jailed journalist and activist Andrzej Poczobut has contracted coronavirus infection, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
11.06.2021
Medicines not given to jailed Polish activist Andrzej Poczobut after alleged refusal to leave country
Andrzej Poczobut, a political prisoner and member of the Union of Poles in Belarus, is reportedly being deprived of necessary medicines behind bars.
02.06.2021
Three women involved in Poles’ Union case forcibly removed from Belarus
Three of the five Belarusian Poles arrested in the so called Polish case have been ‘deported’ to Poland, Belsat TV Director Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy said on Twitter on Wednesday, referring to ‘unconfirmed but reliable information’.
02.06.2021
Freedom of speech locked up: How many Belarusian media workers are now behind bars?
More than a dozen journalists, bloggers, media workers are behind bars in Belarus.
20.05.2021
Arrested chairperson of Poles’ Union in Belarus to remain in jail for another five months
The Prosecutor General’s Office has extended the detention of political prisoner Andżelika Borys for the coming five months, znadniemna.pl reports with reference to its own sources.
14.05.2021
Detained journalist Andrzej Poczobut charged
Andrzej Poczobut, journalist and member of the Union of Poles in Belarus, faces charges
02.04.2021