# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iryna-leuszyna
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:33:39.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iryna-leuszyna"
name: "Iryna Leuszyna"
slug: "iryna-leuszyna"
description: "Iryna Alehauna Leushyna is a Belarusian journalist. She is the editor-in-chief and director of the independent news agency BelaPAN, for which she was named Journalist of the Year in 2018. Leushyna was imprisoned between 2021 and 2024 on charges of leading an \"extremist organisation\"."
tagline: "Belarusian journalist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1965-11-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           32.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.267530666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Leushina"
    title: "Irina Leushina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0rina_Lev%C5%9Fina"
    title: "İrina Levşina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%9E%D1%88%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Ірына Леўшына"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%9E%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%9E%D1%88%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Ірына Алегаўна Леўшына"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iryna_Le%C5%AD%C5%A1yna"
    title: "Iryna Leŭšyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iryna_Leushyna"
    title: "Iryna Leushyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iryna_Leushyna"
    title: "Iryna Leushyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iryna_Leuszyna"
    title: "Iryna Leuszyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Левшина, Ирина Олеговна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97006878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump