{"id":101827,"date":"2024-08-23T16:53:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T13:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/101827\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"viasna-at-least-48-political-prisoners-charged-with-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/101827\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasna: at least 48 political prisoners charged with disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n U\u0142adzimir Cyhanovi\u010d\n <\/div>\n \n
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August 23, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarusian authorities have transferred at least 84 political convicts from penal colonies to prisons and charged at least 48 with disobedience as of today, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Viasna, authorities use the charge arbitrarily and selectively to put pressure on political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August, the human rights group reached out to the UN special rapporteur on Belarus regarding the Criminal Code article against “malicious disobedience” to chiefs of correctional institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It argued that the article should be excluded from the code as it violates the right to personal liberty and the right not to be tried or punished twice for the same offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courts have scheduled two new disobedience hearings for September 5, Viasna said. A Mazyr district judge will try blogger U\u0142adzimir Cyhanovi\u010d and a Navapo\u0142ack judge \u2013 antifascist activist Tamaz Pipija.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The human rights community declared both of them political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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