{"id":542184,"date":"2026-05-14T12:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542184"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:42:48","slug":"former-belta-deputy-head-siarhei-adziarykha-released-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/former-belta-deputy-head-siarhei-adziarykha-released-media","title":{"rendered":"Former BelTA Deputy Head Siarhei Adziarykha Released \u2014 Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><b>Siarhei Adziarykha<\/b><\/strong>, the former deputy director-general of BelTA for ideology, has been released, \u201cNasha Niva\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/395178\">reports<\/a>. In 2022, he was sentenced to five years in a penal colony for leaking official information to the Telegram channel \u201cNick and Mike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adziarykha was detained in October 2021. He was accused of providing the \u201cNick and Mike\u201d Telegram channel with confidential information about Alyaksandr Lukashenka\u2019s work schedule. According to the case materials, at least 58 publications were made based on the information provided. In some cases, the publication of the information led to changes in Lukashenka\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Adziarykha\u2019s actions were classified as abuse of official powers (Part 2, Article 426 of the Criminal Code). The prosecution argued that he had undermined the authority and business reputation of BelTA and created public opinion about the corruptibility of officials and their dissatisfaction with the political course being pursued.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Adziarykha was sentenced to five years in a penal colony and fined 500 basic units.<\/p>\n<p>Adziarykha was recognised as a political prisoner. His sentence was due to end around July 2026, but, as \u201cNN\u201d learned, he is already free. He may have been released under an amnesty, as the charge was classified as corruption-related rather than \u201cprotest-related.\u201d In October 2025, a person named Siarhei Adziarykha registered as a sole proprietor working as a taxi driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siarhei Adziarykha, the former deputy director-general of BelTA for ideology, has been released, \u201cNasha Niva\u201d reports. In 2022, he was sentenced to five years in a penal colony for leaking official information to the Telegram channel \u201cNick and Mike.\u201d Adziarykha was detained in October 2021. He was accused of providing the \u201cNick and Mike\u201d Telegram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":542183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a05991b820cb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Former BelTA Deputy Head Siarhei Adziarykha Released \u2014 Media"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542184","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=542184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}