{"id":1314,"date":"2023-08-14T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=1314"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"update-on-arrests-trials-politically-motivated-persecution-8","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/1314\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 14,&nbsp;<em>BPN<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/strong>New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on August 12 and 13 with more arrests reported and pressure mounting on jailed activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arrested and released<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police arrested trade unionists Volha Brycikava and Alaksandar Kucharonak and accused them of calling for sanctions allegedly harming the national security of Belarus, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. Both were employed with the Naftan oil refinery in Navapo\u0142ack, Viciebsk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catholic priest Antonij Adamovi\u010d is under arrest in Pier\u0161amajsk, Hrodna region, Chry\u015bcianskaja Vizija reported. Police also searched his parish office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police also arrested Alena D\u017amitryjeva from Brest after she returned from a charter trip to Poland,&nbsp;<em>Belsat TV<\/em>&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities released Kanstancin Chanin and Ivan Raki\u0107 after both had served their two-and-a-half-year prison terms, after being convicted of inciting hatred and disobeying police orders, respectively, Viasna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Criminal proceedings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jailed Alaksiej Kudasa\u016d, currently serving an 11-year prison term on charges widely seen as politically motivated, was sentenced to six more months in prison for allegedly forming an extremist group, Viasna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other instances of persecution<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jailed anarchist activist D\u017amitryj Dubo\u016dski, sentenced to 20 years in prison, was transferred to a closed prison in Mahilo\u016d, Viasna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 8, the Supreme Court replaced a five-year of restricted freedom term with 18 months in prison for Hleb Vieta\u0161kin, Viasna reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of August 14, human rights defenders identified at least 1,484 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented. 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Arrested and released Police arrested trade unionists Volha Brycikava and Alaksandar Kucharonak and accused them of calling for sanctions allegedly harming the national security of Belarus, the Viasna Human Rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-1314","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 14,&nbsp;BPN.&nbsp;New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on August 12 and 13 with more arrests reported and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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