{"id":544468,"date":"2026-05-22T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=544468"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:16:58","slug":"political-prisoner-journalist-kiryl-pazniak-admitted-to-prison-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/political-prisoner-journalist-kiryl-pazniak-admitted-to-prison-hospital","title":{"rendered":"Political Prisoner Journalist Kiryl Pazniak Admitted to Prison Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Political prisoner and journalist <b>Kiryl Pazniak<\/b> has been admitted to a prison hospital. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/baj.media\/be\/zhurnalist-kiryla-paznjak-patrapi-u-turjemny-shpital\/\">the Belarusian Association of Journalists<\/a>, citing the former wife of the political prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>Pazniak reportedly became unwell in a vehicle transporting him and his daughter <b>Yanina Pazniak<\/b> to a court hearing. He was hospitalised. Eight months ago, Pazniak suffered from pneumonia and COVID-19. According to the journalist\u2019s former wife, he has lost consciousness several times recently. His lungs may be in poor condition.<\/p>\n<p>Kiryl and Yanina Pazniak were detained in September 2025. They are accused under articles related to creating an extremist formation and discrediting Belarus. The journalist\u2019s YouTube channel \u201cPlatforma 375\u201d was designated an \u201cextremist formation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political prisoner and journalist Kiryl Pazniak has been admitted to a prison hospital. This was reported by the Belarusian Association of Journalists, citing the former wife of the political prisoner. Pazniak reportedly became unwell in a vehicle transporting him and his daughter Yanina Pazniak to a court hearing. He was hospitalised. Eight months ago, Pazniak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":544467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a102d1d90af2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Political Prisoner Journalist Kiryl Pazniak Admitted to Prison Hospital"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544468","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=544468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}