{"id":115101,"date":"2024-11-22T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/115101\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"five-pardoned-prisoners-named","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/115101\/","title":{"rendered":"Five pardoned prisoners named"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

November 22, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarusian propagandist Juryj Vaskrasienski has named five political prisoners who have been released after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka pardoned them on November 7, Zerkalo<\/em> reported, quoting the First Informational<\/em> state television channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaskrasienski identified them as Ala\u016dcina Hudkova, Andrej Karalo\u016d, Ilja Ta\u0142sto\u016d, Siarhiej \u010cy\u017e and Siarhiej Ilin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Viasna Human Rights Center, Hudkova was arrested in the spring of 2024 and later sentenced to a year in prison for a protest rally that had taken place in Brest on June 10, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ta\u0142sto\u016d was sentenced to prison for alleged violent disorder in connection with protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2024, \u010cy\u017e was sentenced to three years of restricted freedom in an open-type corrective institution for allegedly libeling the head of state. Karalo\u016d was sentenced to two years in prison on the same charge in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilin was sentenced to prison in January for allegeldy insulting the head of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 178 political prisoners have been released in six batches over four and a half months with the most recent group pardoned on November 20, yet 223 people were designated as political prisoners in the same period, the Viasna Human Rights Center said yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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