{"id":136882,"date":"2025-05-06T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/136882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"veteran-activist-bahinskaja-faces-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/136882\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran activist Bahinskaja faces criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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May 6, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Authorities have filed criminal charges against Minsk-based 78-year-old opposition activist Nina Bahinskaja, accusing her of several counts of demonstrating without permission from the city government, the Viasna Human Rights Center reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The charges are linked to her wearing a white-red-white badge in public and demonstrating banned opposition symbols in the streets of Minsk in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trial will take place at by Minsk’s Per\u0161amajski District Court, but the date is unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bahinskaja has been active in the opposition movement since the 1980s. She kept staging one-woman protests in Minsk even after the crackdown on the 2020 postelection uprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2020, Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka told officials not to detain Bahinskaja, describing her as a person of conviction. If she is \u201cremoved from the squares,\u201d he said, \u201cthere will be no opposition.\u201d Nevertheless, Bahinskaja has been detained and fined many times since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities also confiscated a land plot from her over unpaid fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, she was convicted of unsanctioned picketing three times and fined 7,200 rubels ($2,375).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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