{"id":137043,"date":"2025-05-07T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T08:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/137043\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-about-7000-people-convicted-on-political-grounds-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/137043\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: about 7,000 people convicted on political grounds since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>May 7, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on May 6 as authorities filed criminal charges against Minsk-based 78-year-old opposition activist Nina Bahinskaja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is accused of several counts of demonstrating without permission from the city government, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. 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<p>More than 8,230 people have faced criminal politically-motivated charges in Belarus since the 2020 political crisis, with at least 6,940 convicted, according to Viasna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus has dissolved at least 1,926 NGOs between the presidential election of 2020 and April 2025, Lawtrend rights group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information ministry continued blacklisting online content linked to regime critics with extremist designations for the <em>Dizayner Kos <\/em>YouTube channel as well as <em>andrei.dmitriev<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>natalliam3<\/em> and&nbsp;<em>ViachaslauBarok<\/em> on TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another development, the state-run <em>news.by<\/em> reported the capture of Vasil Hra\u010dycha, a volunteer fighter with the Ukraine-based Kastu\u015b Kalino\u016dski Regiment fighting Russia, and opposition activist Pavie\u0142 Bialucin.\u00a0No further details have been disclosed but propaganda workers compared Hra\u010dycha\u2019s arrest to the capture of volunteer Vasil Vieramiej\u010dyk, extradited from Vietnam last November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of May 7, human rights defenders identified at least 1,192 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\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">State-run media report capture of another Kalino\u016dski Regiment volunteer fighter<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">May 6, Pozirk.&nbsp; The state-run news.by reported the arrests of Vasil Hra\u010dycha, a volunteer fighter with the Ukraine-based Kastu\u015b Kalino\u016dski Regiment (KKR) fighting Russia, and opposition activist Pavie\u0142 Bialucin.&nbsp; Hra\u010dycha left Belarus in 2022 and joined the KKR after receiving &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/136864\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, Pozirk. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on May 6 as authorities filed criminal charges against Minsk-based 78-year-old opposition activist Nina Bahinskaja. She is accused of several counts of demonstrating without permission from the city government, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. The charges are linked to her wearing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-137043","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: about 7,000 people convicted on political grounds since 2020 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 7, Pozirk. 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