{"id":130773,"date":"2025-03-20T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/130773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-un-experts-call-for-immediate-release-of-rights-defender-rabkova","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/130773\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: UN experts call for immediate release of rights defender Rabkova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>March 20, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on March 19 as the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recognized the detention of Belarusian human rights activist Marfa Rabkova as arbitrary and politically motivated, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her persecution violates international norms and is linked to her human rights activities, the experts said, calling for her immediate release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D\u017amitryj Novika\u016d, an influencer, singer and local history enthusiast from Homiel, will go on trial later this month on protest-related charges, <em>Flagshtok <\/em>reported. Police arrested him last October in Minsk together with his wife. It remains unknown whether she was also charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of March 20, human rights defenders identified at least 1,206 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\/lager_dlia_bezhentsev_pabrade_sogg-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lager_dlia_bezhentsev_pabrade_sogg-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lager_dlia_bezhentsev_pabrade_sogg-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lager_dlia_bezhentsev_pabrade_sogg-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lager_dlia_bezhentsev_pabrade_sogg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lager_dlia_bezhentsev_pabrade_sogg.jpg 870w\" 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\">BySol head says propaganda film could have pushed exiled regime critic to commit suicide<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">March 19, Pozirk. Belarusian national Stanis\u0142a\u016d Brykin committed suicide at a detention center for asylum seekers in Lithuanian Pabrad\u0117 two weeks ago, Andrej Stry\u017eak of the BySol Solidarity Foundation has said on Telegram. In 2020, Brykin participated in the postelection &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/130640\">\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 20, Pozirk. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on March 19 as the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recognized the detention of Belarusian human rights activist Marfa Rabkova as arbitrary and politically motivated, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. Her persecution violates international norms and is linked to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-130773","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reprisals: UN experts call for immediate release of rights defender Rabkova | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 20, Pozirk. 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