{"id":128957,"date":"2025-03-07T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T07:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/128957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-ukrainian-three-others-arrested-in-viciebsk-region","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/128957\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: Ukrainian, three others arrested in Viciebsk region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>March 7, <em>Pozirk<\/em><\/strong>. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on March 6 as Belarusian authorities filed criminal charges against four people, one of them a<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>Ukrainian national.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Border Committee said they were accused of border violations and organizing illegal migration. All were arrested in the Viciebsk region that borders Russia. Officials claimed that the Ukrainian was heading to Russia with &#8220;extremist&#8221; intentions, while the others assisted him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another development, Via\u010das\u0142a\u016d \u0160\u010da\u016dlik, 74, Lubo\u016d Ho\u0142ubieva and Iryna Ho\u0142ubieva-Palujan went on trial in Minsk on protest-related charges, <em>Na\u0161a Niva<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U\u0142adzimir Pa\u016d\u0142a\u016d was released after serving three years in prison for participating in 2020 postelection protests, the Homiel branch of the Viasna Human Rights Center said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 13 people convicted on charges widely seen as politically motivated were released in February after serving their terms in full, and three others were pardoned, Visana noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of March 7, human rights defenders identified at least 1,219 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sud-ostrovets-by-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sud-ostrovets-by-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sud-ostrovets-by-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sud-ostrovets-by-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sud-ostrovets-by-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sud-ostrovets-by.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Society<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Society<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Revelation from Astraviec judge unveils massive scale of persecution over banned content<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">March 6, Pozirk. A total of 51 people were found guilty of sharing banned content in the Hrodna region&#039;s Astraviec district last year, the state-controlled ostrovets.by reported, citing Judge \u015aviat\u0142ana \u0141abor. In all, Belarus has 142 district courts. If every &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/128815\">\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>March 7, Pozirk. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on March 6 as Belarusian authorities filed criminal charges against four people, one of them a Ukrainian national. The State Border Committee said they were accused of border violations and organizing illegal migration. All were arrested in the Viciebsk region that borders Russia. 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