{"id":533611,"date":"2026-04-14T12:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=533611"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:16:19","slug":"photographer-aliaksandr-shyshko-detained-at-minsk-airport-after-returning-from-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/photographer-aliaksandr-shyshko-detained-at-minsk-airport-after-returning-from-georgia","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Aliaksandr Shyshko Detained at Minsk Airport After Returning From Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The detention of photographer <strong>Aliaksandr Shyshko<\/strong> took place in April. Human rights defender <strong>Raman Kislyak<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/be\/news\/183473\/\">confirmed<\/a> the information to the publication Pozirk &#8211; News About Belarus: <em>\u201cAliaksandr had been living in Tbilisi since at least 2022. It is difficult to say why he returned to Belarus, perhaps he missed his homeland and relatives. I think he miscalculated the risk of detention and believed he would get through.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The human rights defender noted that after Freedom Day 2024, propagandists began mentioning Shyshko in their materials: <em>\u201cAs far as I know, a criminal case was opened over the holding of Freedom Day events abroad, and within the framework of this case, a search was carried out at his apartment in Belarus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detention of photographer Aliaksandr Shyshko took place in April. Human rights defender Raman Kislyak confirmed the information to the publication Pozirk &#8211; News About Belarus: \u201cAliaksandr had been living in Tbilisi since at least 2022. It is difficult to say why he returned to Belarus, perhaps he missed his homeland and relatives. I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":533610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69de13f682dce.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Photographer Aliaksandr Shyshko Detained at Minsk Airport After Returning From Georgia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533611","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=533611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}