According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists, as reported by Tbibuna.com Belarus, sports journalist Alexander Ivulin has been released and has already left Belarus as of 17 February, 2023. Ivulin had been detained at home on 3 June 2021, on charges of ‘organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.’ On 19 January 2022, the judge of the Soviet district of Minsk sentenced Ivulin to two years in prison. His YouTube-channel was declared by the Minsk officials as extremist on 17 September 2021 and he was included by the officials in the list of extremists in Belarus.
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