{"id":575232,"date":"2026-09-10T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=575232"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:37:41","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-on-verdict-against-lawyer-laeuski-in-modern-belarus-the-law-means-nothing-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-on-verdict-against-lawyer-laeuski-in-modern-belarus-the-law-means-nothing-anymore","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya On Verdict Against Lawyer Laeuski: In Modern Belarus, The Law Means Nothing Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/strong> commented on the verdict against lawyer <strong>Dzmitry Laeuski<\/strong>. On Sept. 9, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lawyer-dzmitry-laeuski-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison\">sentenced to three years in prison<\/a> under articles on \u201cfacilitating extremist activities\u201d and \u201cdiscrediting Belarus\u201d for comments to independent Belarusian media outlets.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cDzmitry is an incredibly courageous person and a professional lawyer. Back in 2011\u20132012, he defended Ales Bialiatski \u2014 and even then, the security forces put such pressure on him that he had to suspend his legal practice for several years. And in 2020, he was not afraid to defend those whom the regime considered among the \u2018most dangerous\u2019 \u2014 Viktar Babaryka and Maksim Znak,\u201d<\/i> Tsikhanouskaya <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tsikhanouskaya\/9687\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tsikhanouskaya stressed that Laeuski always acted strictly within the law and expressed her support for his family.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHe made a principled decision to stay at home, in Belarus, because it is his country. Dzmitry always acted strictly according to the law, down to the last letter \u2014 but in modern Belarus, unfortunately, the law means nothing anymore to those who seize power.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I want to wholeheartedly support Dzmitry and his family. We will certainly inform our international partners about this verdict. It should not be the case that some people are released while others are taken hostage in their place,\u201d<\/i> Tsikhanouskaya said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya commented on the verdict against lawyer Dzmitry Laeuski. On Sept. 9, he was sentenced to three years in prison under articles on \u201cfacilitating extremist activities\u201d and \u201cdiscrediting Belarus\u201d for comments to independent Belarusian media outlets. \u201cDzmitry is an incredibly courageous person and a professional lawyer. Back in 2011\u20132012, he defended Ales Bialiatski \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":562244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa26c5a1d1ec.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya On Verdict Against Lawyer Laeuski: In Modern Belarus, The Law Means Nothing Anymore"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[143172],"class_list":["post-575232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575232","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=575232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}