{"id":120957,"date":"2025-01-08T20:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/120957\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"belarus-extremist-formation-designations-at-257","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/120957\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus&#8217; &#8220;extremist formation&#8221; designations at 257"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>January 8, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarus has designated 257 groups as &#8220;extremist formations,&#8221; including 89 last year, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, the authorities added 10 media outlets, coalitions that ran for the opposition Coordination Council, the Volnyja Kupa\u0142a\u016dcy theater company, nonprofits, initiatives and foreign foundations to the list, Viasna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the human rights defenders, 27 groups were lebeled as &#8220;extremist formations&#8221; in the last two months of 2021, 80 in 2022, 62 in 2023 and 89 in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Viasna reports 759 reprisal incidents in December<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">January 5, Pozirk. Reprisals and state-sponsored terror keep defining the Belarusian regime&#039;s internal policies, the Viasna Human Rights Center said in its recent report on human rights situation. Reprisals target &quot;everyone who can be suspected of disloyalty to the authorities&quot; &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/120676\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 8, Pozirk. Belarus has designated 257 groups as &#8220;extremist formations,&#8221; including 89 last year, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. In 2024, the authorities added 10 media outlets, coalitions that ran for the opposition Coordination Council, the Volnyja Kupa\u0142a\u016dcy theater company, nonprofits, initiatives and foreign foundations to the list, Viasna said. 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