{"id":528735,"date":"2026-03-26T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=528735"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:39:18","slug":"detainees-in-publishers-case-released-from-kgb-detention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/detainees-in-publishers-case-released-from-kgb-detention-center","title":{"rendered":"Detainees In \u201cPublishers Case\u201d Released From KGB Detention Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ale\u015b Ja\u016ddacha<\/strong> and <strong>Vac\u0142a\u016d Bahdanovi\u010d<\/strong>, detained in the so-called \u201cpublishers case,\u201d have been released from the KGB pre-trial detention center, the human rights center Viasna reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to human rights defenders, Ja\u016ddacha and Bahdanovi\u010d are now free. <strong>Zmicier Ko\u0142as<\/strong> and Bahdanovi\u010d\u2019s daughter <b>Viktoryia <strong>Bahdanovi\u010d<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Detentions among Belarusian publishers and book distributors took place in February.<\/p>\n<p>Vac\u0142a\u016d Bahdanovi\u010d is the founder of the publishing house \u201cTechnalohija,\u201d which had been releasing books since the late 1980s. A few days after the security forces\u2019 raids, the publishing house announced it was suspending operations. Bahdanovi\u010d\u2019s wife and two daughters were also detained.<\/p>\n<p>On March 3, the KGB designated as an \u201cextremist formation\u201d the \u201cCoalition of Publishing Houses \u2018Fund Kamunikat.org,\u2019 \u2018Lohvinau Publishing House,\u2019 and \u2018Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing.\u2019\u201d Those listed as affiliated with the \u201cformation\u201d included Jaros\u0142aw Iwaniuk, Zmicier Ko\u0142as, Ihar \u0141ohvina\u016d, Vac\u0142a\u016d Bahdanovi\u010d, Andrei Yanushkevich, and Ale\u015b Ja\u016ddacha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ale\u015b Ja\u016ddacha and Vac\u0142a\u016d Bahdanovi\u010d, detained in the so-called \u201cpublishers case,\u201d have been released from the KGB pre-trial detention center, the human rights center Viasna reports. According to human rights defenders, Ja\u016ddacha and Bahdanovi\u010d are now free. Zmicier Ko\u0142as and Bahdanovi\u010d\u2019s daughter Viktoryia Bahdanovi\u010d\u00a0remain in custody. Detentions among Belarusian publishers and book distributors took place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":492916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c56f4c55700.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Detainees In \u201cPublishers Case\u201d Released From KGB Detention Center"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528735","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=528735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}