Regnum editor-in-chief Baranchik was released after being detained at the request of Belarus

Yuri Baranchik , editor-in-chief of the analytical editorial office of the Regnum news agency, who was detained on the night of March 15 , was released after the expiration of his detention, according to a message on the agency’s website.

“The issue of Baranchyk’s extradition has not yet been resolved,” the lawyers explained. “There is no refusal of extradition.” Lawyers told Regnum that Baranchik was released without signature or guarantees.

editor-in-chief At the same time, Regnum Modest Kolerov, in a conversation with Interfax , said that Baranchyk was released on his own recognizance. “Now prosecutors will decide his future fate,” Kolerov noted.

Yesterday evening, the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow refused to arrest the journalist, considering the prosecution's arguments unfounded.

Belarusian citizen Yuri Baranchik was detained in Moscow on March 15, after which it became clear that Belarusian investigators would seek his extradition. “We believe that our colleague in Belarus is being persecuted on political grounds, and he cannot be extradited,” Kolerov said.

in Minsk At the beginning of December last year, Belarusian citizens Dmitry Alikin, Sergei Shiptenko and Yuri Pavlovtsev were arrested and accused of inciting hatred. All three published columns in the Russian publications Regnum , Lenta.Ru and EADaily. After this, the Russian Ambassador to Belarus called the columnists “radical journalists.”