{"id":124047,"date":"2025-01-29T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/124047\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-plant-manager-under-arrest-journalist-on-wanted-list","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/124047\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: plant manager under arrest, journalist on wanted list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Briefly: interior ministry blacklists satirical online project as extremist group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viciebsk university checking students\u2019 smartphones for opposition content<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prominent teacher flees Belarus over propagandist\u2019s attacks   <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police search exiled blogger\u2019s home after January 26 opposition rally in Warsaw<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 29,<\/strong> Pozirk.<\/strong> <\/em>New cases of politically-motivated persecution documented in Belarus on January 28 included an arrest of Viktar Samon\u010dyk, a manager at the Re\u010dyca Metalware Plant in the Homiel region, Flagshtok<\/em> reported. The arrest may be linked to his refusal to fire regime critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minsk and Moscow have placed Barys Harecki, deputy chairman of the blacklisted Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), on their international wanted list, without specifying the charges against him, Mediazona Belarus <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online content<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interior ministry reported extremist group designations for the \u0141uka\u0161o\u0142ki<\/em> and Prostymi S\u0142ovami<\/em> online projects, listing Hanna Fiedaronak, Hanna Kanava\u0142ava, Kyri\u0142 Da\u0144ko and Russian national Anna Grebenchikova as members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information ministry updated its register of extremist content with several new entries, including a Brest-based Telegram channel, a YouTube video about the recent presidential election and fpixel. svabody<\/em>, cyber_resistenza<\/em> and plan.it.b2020<\/em> on Instagram. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viciebsk State University ordered checks of students’ smartphones to detect followers of opposition content, the Vitebsk, Ya Gulayu<\/em> Telegram channel said. Group supervisors compile lists of those who refused to hand in phones for inspection, it noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other cases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ta\u0107ciana Krapinievi\u010d, a successful teacher from Lachavi\u010dy, Brest region, and finalist of the 2023 Teacher of the Year contest, fled Belarus urgently fearing politically-motivated persecution, BySol reported. Her trial was scheduled for January 28 after several denunciations by pro-government activist Volha Bondarava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police searched the Hrodna apartment of exiled blogger Vadzim Jerma\u0161uk, hrodna.life <\/em>reported. The search may be linked to Jerma\u0161uk’s participation in a Belarusian opposition rally in Warsaw on January 26 in protest against the January 26 contested presidential election in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Hrodna judge was scheduled to hear a request to toughen the restricted freedom sentence passed against exiled Ina \u0160yrokaja, the Pravo Imeyut<\/em> Telegram channel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of January 29, human rights defenders identified at least 1,245 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented. Since the start of January, 18 people have been added to the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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