Authorities add musicians, parents to extremism list

July 10, BPN. Authorities in Belarus listed 24 people as extremists amid the ongoing crackdown on opposition sympathizers last week, according to an official website.

The new entries include Dźmitryj and Uładzimir Karakin, members of the Litesound band that represented the country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, and their partents Volha Krajko and Uładzimir Karakin.

Law enforcers arrested them in October 2022.

In March, a judge sentenced the brothers to two and a half years of restricted freedom, a form of house arrest, for public order offences.

The parents were convicted of illegal handling of firearms. The mother was sentenced to two and a half years of restricted freedom and the father to three years.

The extremism list now comprises 3,016 names.