{"id":494266,"date":"2025-10-30T22:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=494266"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:48:21","slug":"mozyr-photographer-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-likely-in-connection-with-the-hajun-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/mozyr-photographer-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-likely-in-connection-with-the-hajun-case","title":{"rendered":"Mozyr Photographer Sentenced to Three Years in Prison, Likely in Connection With the Hajun Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A photographer from Mozyr, <b>Alexei Kaidash<\/b>, has been sentenced to three years in a high-security penal colony under the article on facilitating &#8220;extremist activity&#8221; (Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code). The charges are likely related to the &#8220;Hajun case,&#8221; according to Homielskaya Viasna.<\/p>\n<p>Kaidash was detained in February 2025. He was initially arrested for 15 days under an administrative case for distributing &#8220;extremist materials,&#8221; after which a criminal case was opened.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence was handed down a few days ago. The details of the charges remain unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Kaidash worked as a professional photographer, specializing in wedding, children\u2019s, and portrait photography, as well as portfolios and images for menus and catalogs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Belarusian Hajun Project&#8221; is a monitoring OSINT project tracking military activity by Russian and Belarusian forces. The monitoring group was created before the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war by activist <b>Anton Motolko<\/b>. In early February 2025, law enforcement gained access to the project\u2019s bot chat, after which the project announced it was ceasing operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photographer from Mozyr, Alexei Kaidash, has been sentenced to three years in a high-security penal colony under the article on facilitating &#8220;extremist activity&#8221; (Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code). The charges are likely related to the &#8220;Hajun case,&#8221; according to Homielskaya Viasna. Kaidash was detained in February 2025. He was initially arrested for 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/69045bbb7e1ff.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Mozyr Photographer Sentenced to Three Years in Prison, Likely in Connection With the Hajun Case"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}