{"id":510877,"date":"2026-01-19T21:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=510877"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:23:20","slug":"polish-prosecutors-say-melkazerau-had-chronic-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-prosecutors-say-melkazerau-had-chronic-illnesses","title":{"rendered":"Polish Prosecutors Say Melkaziorau Had Chronic Illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Polish prosecutors have said that no injuries were found on the body of Belarusian journalist <strong>Mikita Melkaziorau<\/strong> that could have caused his death, but that he had chronic illnesses. The statement was made to Belsat by <b>Piotr Antoni Skiba<\/b>, spokesman for the Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cExaminations conducted during the autopsy did not reveal traumatic changes that could have led to death. The changes identified are related to the deceased\u2019s chronic illnesses,\u201d<\/i> Skiba said, without specifying the nature of the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecutor\u2019s office, the case concerning unintentional killing has been suspended pending a medical opinion based on the results of the forensic autopsy and toxicological examinations.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Mikita Melkaziorau died in Warsaw on the night of December 20\u201321. He was 37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish prosecutors have said that no injuries were found on the body of Belarusian journalist Mikita Melkaziorau that could have caused his death, but that he had chronic illnesses. The statement was made to Belsat by Piotr Antoni Skiba, spokesman for the Warsaw District Prosecutor\u2019s Office. \u201cExaminations conducted during the autopsy did not reveal traumatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696f1f5de5334.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Prosecutors Say Melkaziorau Had Chronic Illnesses"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510877","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=510877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}