{"id":10227,"date":"2023-11-03T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T08:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10227"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"update-on-arrests-trials-politically-motivated-persecution-65","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/10227\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>November 3, <em>Pozirk<\/em><\/strong>. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on November 2 as authorities continued harassing dissenters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arrested and released<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minsk police arrested a man for driving a car with ribbons with Belarusian national patterns and in colors of the Ukrainian flag, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. The man admitted under duress to editing videos that reportedly discredit police officers and the current government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities released Siarhiej Antusievi\u010d, a former deputy chair of the now defunct Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BCDTU), after he had served a two-year prison term for his alleged role in the 2020 protests, Viasna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trials<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A judge in Babrujsk, Mahilo\u016d region, fined Danuta D\u017aja\u010denka and Viktar Schab 740 ($239) and 74 ($23) rubels, respectively, for laying flowers and lighting candles commemorating victims of Josef Stalin\u2019s terror, Vesna Nabludayet reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Criminal proceedings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge \u015aviat\u0142ana Rubachova in \u017d\u0142obin, Homiel region, sentenced Maksim Kalini\u010danka to 18 months of restricted freedom in home confinement for an alleged public order offense, Viasna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dzianis Ha\u0142a\u016dko and Raman Rafiejenka were given three years of restricted freedom in home confinement; Ihar Niadbaj\u0142a, 18 months, on similar charges in Minsk in connection with the postelection protests, Viasna reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New criminal charges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators in Homiel filed a new criminal charge of facilitating extremism against Leanid Sudalenka, a prominent Belarusian human rights defender currently based abroad, he said on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Extremist&#8221; content update<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interior ministry said it had branded several social media accounts as extremist content, including the <em>Belarus Seichas<\/em> Telegram channel, <em>mayakby<\/em> and <em>ezhaka<\/em> Instagram accounts, <em>Mayak Belorusskiy<\/em> YouTube channel and several TikTok accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of November 3, human rights defenders identified at least 1,469 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented. Opposition sources estimate the number of political prisoners at around 5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 3, Pozirk. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on November 2 as authorities continued harassing dissenters. Arrested and released Minsk police arrested a man for driving a car with ribbons with Belarusian national patterns and in colors of the Ukrainian flag, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. The man admitted under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-10227","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 3, Pozirk. 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