{"id":10131,"date":"2023-11-02T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10131"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"investigators-open-new-case-against-prominent-rights-defender-sudalenka","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/10131\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators open new case against prominent rights defender Sudalenka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1092\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430\u043b-1-1-e1698938329702.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>Credit: Sudalenka&#039;s personal archive<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 2, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Investigators in Homiel on November 1 opened a new criminal case against Leanid Sudalenka, a prominent Belarusian human rights defender currently based abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted on Facebook that he sees the persecution as revenge for his honest interviews about the ill-treatment of prisoners and politically-motivated reprisals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators intend to charge him with facilitating extremism under Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudalenka was arrested in January 2021 and sentenced to three and a half years in prison later that year.<br><br>A court in Homiel found him guilty of staging and financing&nbsp;protests for helping protesters in the Homiel region write complaints against mistreatment and pay fines.<br><br>He left prison in July after serving his sentence in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2, Pozirk. Investigators in Homiel on November 1 opened a new criminal case against Leanid Sudalenka, a prominent Belarusian human rights defender currently based abroad. He noted on Facebook that he sees the persecution as revenge for his honest interviews about the ill-treatment of prisoners and politically-motivated reprisals. Investigators intend to charge him with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":10126,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-10131","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Investigators open new case against prominent rights defender Sudalenka | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 2, Pozirk. 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