human rights defender
Katsiaryna Bakhvalava (Andreyeva)
Actions and Campaigns
Katsiaryna Bakhvalava (Andreyeva)
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Organization affiliation
- Belsat TV
HRD's year of birth
1993
HRD's Gender
Woman
Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
In prison (sentenced)
HRD's bio and work
Katsiaryna Bakhvalava (Andreyeva) is a journalist at Belsat TV. Together with Darya Chultsova, she was targeted in a criminal case for “organizing actions that grossly violate public order” after making a live broadcast on November 15, 2020 from the Square of Change in Minsk where the police had violently repressed a peaceful protest.
Detained since
Dec 15, 2020
Charge(s)
- Creating disturbances
- Treason
Sentence
8 years and 3 months
Latitude: 52.46748962425122
Longitude: 30.942399712922672
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
Location of detention - City/Town
Homieĺ
Location of detention - Facility
Penal colony No. 4. 246035, Homieĺ, vulica Antoshkina 4
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1993
- HRD's Gender
- Woman
- Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Organization affiliation
- Belsat TV
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Katsiaryna Bakhvalava (Andreyeva) is a journalist at Belsat TV. Together with Darya Chultsova, she was targeted in a criminal case for “organizing actions that grossly violate public order” after making a live broadcast on November 15, 2020 from the Square of Change in Minsk where the police had violently repressed a peaceful protest.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Homieĺ
- Location of detention - Facility
- Penal colony No. 4. 246035, Homieĺ, vulica Antoshkina 4
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 52.46748962425122
Longitude: 30.942399712922672
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Dec 15, 2020
- Current Status
- In prison (sentenced)
- Charge(s)
- Creating disturbances
- Treason
- Sentence
8 years and 3 months
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Documented by
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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