The site "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus" was blocked because of an article about the accused of killing an employee of the KGB. The author of the material is in the isolator for the surrounding

According to human rights activists, the journalist was detained in Moscow

On Saturday, October 2, the Belarusian human rights center “Vesna” announced the detention of the journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, Gennady Mozheiko, who wrote a few days ago about the accused of killing an KGB officer in Minsk. According to human rights activists, Mozheiko was detained on October 1 in Moscow.

The detention of Mozheiko was confirmed by Komsomolskaya Pravda, who could not contact the correspondent from the evening of Friday.

The mother of the journalist Irina told KP that the last time she talked with her son on the video on the afternoon of September 30. Then he was in a hotel in Moscow.

On the night of October 1 to October 2, Mozheiko mother called and said that he was detained and was in a isolation ward to the surroundings in Minsk. Before that, according to her, the KGB officers searched the journalist’s apartment. “They seized flash drives, stickers and badges of 2001,” said Mozheiko mother. In the decision to search, two articles of the Criminal Code were indicated: part 3 of Article 130 (inciting racial, national, religious or other social hostility or growth) and Article 369 (insulting a representative of power).

The editor -in -chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda Vladimir Sungorkin confirmed that Mozheiko was "detained in Moscow and taken out yesterday." “He is a Belarusian citizen, although our employee,” said Sungorkin.

The detention of Gennady Mozheiko, says “spring”, may be connected with his work. A few days ago, Mozheiko talked with the classmate of the Minsker Andrei Zeltser, who, according to the Belarusian authorities, is guilty of the murder of an employee of the KGB. Zelzer died during the operation of the department in Minsk.

“Literally four sentences were published [the memoirs of a classmate Andrei Zeltser]. <...> She says that she studied with Andrei Zeltser, he was “positive, truthful, advocated the truth”, and she “does not know what happened to him”. She talks about what happened in amazement, ”RBC was retold on the content of the text, the editor -in -chief of KP Vladimir Sungorkin.

The text of Mozheiko was published on the evening of September 28, and the next day the site of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus ceased to open, including in Russia. According to the largest Internet provider of Belarus, Beltelecom, access to the portal was limited on the basis of a decision of the Ministry of Information of the country. Vladimir Sungorkin said that “three minutes after the publication, smart people decided” that an interview could be read as “a terrorist”.

“There is a political decision of the authorities of Belarus that the media sex should be controlled by 100%, and the Komsomolskaya Pravda does not suit them. This is a resource, in their imagination, under the control of Russia, ”added Sungorkin.

On October 1, spokesman for Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin expected "from the Belarusian side to ensure the conditions for the work of our media in Belarus." “We categorically disagree with this,” added Peskov. “We believe that, of course, this is in violation of the principle of freedom of the media.”

The editor -in -chief “KP” Vladimir Sungorkin said that the publication intends to protect both a blocked site and the detained journalist Gennady Mozheiko.

Kristina Safonova