{"id":523530,"date":"2026-03-06T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=523530"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:44:04","slug":"polish-prosecutor-s-office-orders-additional-examinations-in-case-of-melkaziorau-s-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-prosecutor-s-office-orders-additional-examinations-in-case-of-melkaziorau-s-death","title":{"rendered":"Polish Prosecutor\u2019s Office Orders Additional Examinations In Case Of Melkaziorau\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Additional examinations have been ordered in the case of the death of journalist <b>Mikita Melkaziorau<\/b>, his widow <b>Lina Tsapova<\/b> said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe Polish prosecutor\u2019s office continues to investigate Nikita\u2019s death. In order to establish the final cause of death, his biological materials have been sent for additional examinations. The process is expected to take from four to eight months. Unfortunately, there is no way to speed it up,\u201d<\/i> Tsapova wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Lina Tsapova asked people not to speculate or invent information about Nikita\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Mikita Melkaziorau died in Warsaw on the night of December 20\u201321, 2025. He was 37 years old. The Polish prosecutor\u2019s office opened an investigation into his death under an article on involuntary manslaughter. This is a standard legal formulation used when the cause of death is unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional examinations have been ordered in the case of the death of journalist Mikita Melkaziorau, his widow Lina Tsapova said on Instagram. \u201cThe Polish prosecutor\u2019s office continues to investigate Nikita\u2019s death. In order to establish the final cause of death, his biological materials have been sent for additional examinations. The process is expected to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"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\/03\/69aae83a3efe6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Prosecutor\u2019s Office Orders Additional Examinations In Case Of Melkaziorau\u2019s Death"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523530","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\/523530","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523530\/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=523530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}