{"id":549339,"date":"2026-06-09T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=549339"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:18:04","slug":"supreme-court-reviews-appeal-by-intex-press-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/supreme-court-reviews-appeal-by-intex-press-management","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Reviews Appeal by Intex-Press Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court has reviewed the appeal filed by the former management of the Baranavichy-based newspaper Intex-Press, the <a href=\"https:\/\/baj.media\/be\/vs-pakinu-u-sile-prygavor-janukevichu\/\">Belarusian Association of Journalists<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>On February 26 this year, the Brest Regional Court handed down a guilty <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/former-intex-press-executives-given-lengthy-prison-sentences\">verdict<\/a> against <b>Uladzimir Yanukevich<\/b>, the newspaper&#8217;s editor-in-chief, and <b>Andrei Pakalenka<\/b>, its deputy director. The former managers of the BAR24 news portal in Baranavichy, previously the independent newspaper Intex-Press, were found guilty of &#8220;high treason&#8221; under Article 356 of the Criminal Code. Yanukevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison, while Pakalenka received a 12-year prison sentence. Both were also ordered to pay substantial fines.<\/p>\n<p>On June 8, the Supreme Court reviewed the appeal. Yanukevich&#8217;s sentence was upheld without changes. Pakalenka&#8217;s sentence was reduced by one year to 11 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has reviewed the appeal filed by the former management of the Baranavichy-based newspaper Intex-Press, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported. On February 26 this year, the Brest Regional Court handed down a guilty verdict against Uladzimir Yanukevich, the newspaper&#8217;s editor-in-chief, and Andrei Pakalenka, its deputy director. The former managers of the BAR24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":521404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a27cc4047a76.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Supreme Court Reviews Appeal by Intex-Press Management"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549339","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=549339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}