Dzianis Ivashyn

Dzianis Jaŭhienavič Ivashyn (also Dzyanis Ivashyn, Denis Ivashin; ; ; born 6 June 1979, Hrodna, USSR) is a Belarusian journalist. He works as a freelance correspondent for the Novy Chas newspaper and a volunteer investigator of the Ukrainian InformNapalm project. He was arrested in 2021 by the Belarusian KGB and charged with high treason. His colleagues believe that the arrest was connected with his publications about former Ukrainian Berkut members employed by the Belarusian police.

Journalist Ivashyn participated in the 2014 Euromaidan in Ukraine, and later that year he joined the Ukrainian investigative project InformNapalm as an editor of its Belarusian edition. In 2018, he became a freelance correspondent of the Novy Chas newspaper.

On 12 March 2021, Ivashyn was detained in Hrodna by the Belarusian KGB. According to Ivashyn, who claimed to use only open source material, more than 10 former Berkut members who had left Ukraine served in Belarusian OMON as soldiers, ensigns and officers. He claimed that granting Belarusian citizenship to them and recruitment to police involved legal violations, and stated that several former Berkut members participated in the suppression of the 2020 Belarusian protests.

On 24 March 2021, eight Belarusian human rights organizations recognized Ivashyn as a political prisoner and called for his immediate release. The European Federation of Journalists also demanded his immediate release. Seán Haughey, Irish member of Parliament, became a "godfather" (sponsor) of Ivashyn.