{"id":127967,"date":"2025-02-27T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/127967\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-exiled-blogger-faces-10-criminal-charges-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/127967\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: exiled blogger faces 10 criminal charges in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Briefly: Media project branded extremist group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viciebsk journalist to be tried for sharing banned content<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rights groups designate 19 as political prisoners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 27, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on February 26, as the Minsk Regional Court opened the trial of blogger Siarhiej Biaspa\u0142a\u016d without him being present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities accuse him of 10 crimes, ranging from inciting hatred and calling for sanctions to plotting to seize power and association with an extremist group, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The interior ministry branded Mediazona.Belarus<\/em> project as an extremist group yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information ministry blacklisted social media of Armenian blogger Roza Babakhanyan known as Bella. The woman has recently left for Armenia following her arrest and trial in Belarus for allegedly sharing banned content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ministry also announced extremist content designations for six Telegram channels and chats, including online Belarusian communities in Turkey’s Antalya and Cyprus; nesluchajno.by<\/em>, vyboryvbelarusi2020<\/em>, rusdemsociety_serbia<\/em> and nexta_live_belarus <\/em>on Instagram; Klim Zlobich 0.1<\/em>, Lahvich <\/em>and Osveta<\/em> on TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hieorhij Kar\u017eanie\u016dski, journalist and art critic from Viciebsk, will go on trial today to answer charges of sharing banned content, the Vitebsk, Ya Gul<\/em>yu Telegram channel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criminal proceedings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ihar \u0160ukana\u016d, accused of slandering Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and violent disorder, went on trial in Mazyr, Homiel region, Viasna’s Homiel branch said. Yesterday, right groups added his name along with 18 others to their list of political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siarhiej Pa\u016dlukievi\u010d went on trial in Minsk yesterday, Na\u0161a Niva<\/em> reported. The man faces protest-related charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of February 27, human rights defenders identified at least 1,230 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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