{"id":592915,"date":"2026-10-22T17:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=592915"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:07:15","slug":"polish-court-rules-extradition-of-former-editor-of-mahiliouski-rehiyon-website-to-belarus-legally-inadmissible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-court-rules-extradition-of-former-editor-of-mahiliouski-rehiyon-website-to-belarus-legally-inadmissible","title":{"rendered":"Polish Court Rules Extradition of Former Editor of Mahiliouski Rehiyon Website to Belarus Legally Inadmissible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On October 22, the District Court in Bia\u0142ystok ruled that the extradition to Belarus of Dzmitry Salaujou<\/b>, former editor-in-chief of the Mahiliouski Rehiyon news portal, was legally inadmissible. The Belarusian Association of Journalists reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In August, Belarus\u2019 Prosecutor General\u2019s Office asked Poland to extradite the journalist, who has been living in forced exile since 2021.<\/p>\n

According to Salaujou, the Polish authorities had initially had no intention of sending him to Belarus. However, following the request from the Belarusian authorities, they were required to follow the procedure prescribed by law.<\/p>\n

During the court proceedings, the journalist described the criminal cases brought against him in Belarus in connection with his professional activities. He is accused of creating an \u201cextremist formation\u201d and participating in it, as well as taking part in a \u201cconspiracy\u201d to seize state power by unconstitutional means.<\/p>\n

The court ruled that extradition was inadmissible because the journalist\u2019s rights and freedoms could be violated in Belarus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was asked in detail about the circumstances that forced me to leave my homeland and what threats I face in Belarus,\u201d<\/i> Salaujou said after receiving the official court ruling.<\/p>\n

The document will now be forwarded to Poland\u2019s Minister of Justice, who will make the final decision.<\/p>\n

Dzmitry Salaujou left Belarus in 2021 after learning that the first criminal case had been opened against him. He learned about a second case later, through the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office request for his extradition. By that time, the journalist had already been on the wanted lists in Belarus and Russia for several years.<\/p>\n

Salaujou was editor-in-chief of the Mahiliouski Rehiyon portal. In a decision dated November 29, 2023, Belarus\u2019 State Security Committee (KGB) designated a group of citizens associated with the \u201c6TV Bielarus\u201d initiative, as well as its structural unit Mahiliou Media (\u201cNews of the Mahiliou Region\u201d), as an \u201cextremist formation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The journalist does not rule out that the extradition request may be a precursor to the launch of \u201cspecial proceedings\u201d against him in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On October 22, the District Court in Bia\u0142ystok ruled that the extradition to Belarus of Dzmitry Salaujou, former editor-in-chief of the Mahiliouski Rehiyon news portal, was legally inadmissible. The Belarusian Association of Journalists reports. In August, Belarus\u2019 Prosecutor General\u2019s Office asked Poland to extradite the journalist, who has been living in forced exile since 2021. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":566494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6adb15b6e2e54.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Court Rules Extradition of Former Editor of Mahiliouski Rehiyon Website to Belarus Legally Inadmissible"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127,143090],"tags":[143118,143248],"class_list":["post-592915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592915","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=592915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592923,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592915\/revisions\/592923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}