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Katsiaryna Andreyeva (Bakhvalava) is a Belsat Television journalist. She was born to a family of journalists, historians and philologists. She studied Spanish and for a few years she lived in Spain. Together with camerawoman Daria Chultsova, she became a defendant in a criminal case on organizing actions that grossly violate public order, after a live broadcast from the place of the violent dispersal by the security forces of people who came to honor the memory of the murdered Raman Bandarenka. Andreyeva was detained on November 15, 2020. On February 18, 2021, the court announced a sentence, according to which Andreyeva received 2 years in prison in a general regime colony.Picture taken on February 9, 2021 in Minsk, Belarus. Photo: Volha Shukaila