January 20, Pozirk. Belarus’ Committee for State Security (KGB), by its January 15 decision, designated Free Belarus Center as an extremist group. The interior ministry added the nonprofit to its blacklist on January 20.
The interior ministry identified Marta Skuharava, Alvina Minhazava, Palina Brodzik and Ivan Maroźka as individuals associated with the group.
Based in Warsaw and Kyiv, Free Belarus Center provides legal and mental health counseling to Belarusians. The group helped evacuate people to safer locations in Ukraine after the start of Russia’s large-scale invasion in February 2022.
Belarus’ list of extremist groups contains 325 organizations, including most of the exiled Belarusian media outlets.
