Imprisoned Radio Liberty journalist Ihar Losik allowed correspondence with his wife

On 18 Jan­u­ary, Daria Losik was sen­tenced to 2 years in prison for com­ment­ing on her husband’s case to Bel­sat TV, rec­og­nized as an extrem­ist for­ma­tion in Belarus. After the ver­dict, the admin­is­tra­tion of the cor­rec­tion­al facil­i­ty that holds Ihar Losik allowed him to cor­re­spond with his wife. How­ev­er, it is still unknown whether the cor­re­spon­dence was allowed to Daria, since she is still kept in a pre-tri­al deten­tion facil­i­ty.

The cou­ple has a four-year-old daugh­ter Pauli­na, who is being tak­en care of by her grand­par­ents. She miss­es her par­ents very much.

Mean­while, Ihar’s grand­fa­ther died last week­end. The fam­i­ly hopes to vis­it Ihar in prison in March.

Losik was detained on 25 June 2020 after a search of his home in Baranavichy in con­nec­tion with his blog­ging and jour­nal­is­tic work that had alleged­ly incit­ed protests. On 14 Decem­ber 2021, the jour­nal­ist was sen­tenced to 15 years in prison.