{"id":138230,"date":"2025-05-15T14:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/138230\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"veteran-activist-bahinskajas-to-go-on-trial-on-may-30","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/138230\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran activist Bahinskaja to go on trial on May 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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May 15, Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>The Pier\u0161amajski District Court in Minsk will open proceedings against 78-year-old opposition activist Nina Bahinskaja on May 30, the Belsat<\/em> TV channel reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities filed criminal charges against her for wearing a white-red-white badge in public and demonstrating banned opposition symbols in the streets of Minsk in 2024, the Viasna Human Rights Center said last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bahinskaja was charged with repeatedly violating the order of holding mass events and may face up to three years of restricted freedom or the same term in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman 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 protests and has been detained and fined many times over the past five years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, she was convicted of unsanctioned picketing three times and fined 7,200 rubels ($2,375). Authorities also confiscated a land plot from her over unpaid fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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