We are talking about the transition in Bobrovnyky.
Poland closed the Bobrovnyki checkpoint on the border with Belarus. This is a response to the sentence for the Polish journalist Andrzej Pochobut, who was arrested on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
As reported by Bloomberg, the checkpoint will be closed tomorrow, February 10, at noon local time. It will not be unlocked until the appropriate order is received. This is stated in the e-mail of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is also considering strengthening sanctions against officials from Belarus for repression against Polish citizens on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
Pochobut’s arrest: what is known
The journalist was detained in March 2021 in Grodno. At the same time, the Belarusian security forces reached other activists from the Union of Poles. Some of them were sent to Poland, but Pochobut refused to leave Belarus.
A criminal case was initiated against the reporter. Law enforcement officers considered “talk about Soviet aggression against Poland”, an article in Gazeta Wyborcza about the crackdown on protests in 2020, and a 2006 material about the commander of the Polish anti-communist underground in the Grodno region as evidence of the journalist’s guilt.
The Grodno Regional Court sentenced Pochobut to eight years in a high-security prison. He was found guilty under articles on inciting enmity (Article 130 of the Criminal Code) and calling for actions aimed at harming national security (Article 361 of the Criminal Code).
