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. ==References==