{"id":133732,"date":"2025-04-10T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/133732\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"rights-initiative-closes-down-after-extremist-group-designation","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/133732\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights initiative closes down after extremist group designation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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April 10, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The Palitviazynka human rights initiative that assisted women persecuted on political grounds in Belarus has announced its closure following an earlier extremist group designation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law enforcers identified Ja\u016dhienija Stepu\u015b (Do\u016dhaja), Hanna Kra\u0107ko and Anastasija Zacharevi\u010d as members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“From the very start, we have been and remain a voice for freedom, political prisoners, humanity and empathy, dialogue and solidarity,” the group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The activists urged family members of people jailed in politically-motivated cases in Belarus to speak up and take the fates of their loved ones into their own hands. “Neither politicians nor diplomats will move until you push them. Your voice is the light that can break through the darkness,” they stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The regime tries again and again to prove that it can humiliate and devalue the significance of Belarusian initiatives,\u201d Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja has said. \u201cThis is its only way to demonstrate its \u2018power\u2019. But to be a real power is, first of all, to think about people, how to protect, support, tell the truth even in the most extreme conditions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activities labeled as \u201cextremist\u201d are criminalized and are used by the authorities to persecute their political opponents, civil society and independent media Belarus after the 2020 political crisis and crackdown that followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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