{"id":140563,"date":"2025-05-30T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/140563\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"western-diplomats-express-solidarity-with-veteran-activist-bahinskaja","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/140563\/","title":{"rendered":"Western diplomats express solidarity with veteran activist Bahinskaja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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May 30, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Several diplomats accredited in Belarus gathered in front of the Saviecki District Court in Minsk to express solidarity with veteran opposition activist Nina Bahinskaja as she stands trial for wearing a white-red-white badge and demonstrating banned opposition symbols in public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities accuse her of repeated violations of the order of holding mass events. The 78-year-old woman may face up to three years of restricted freedom or the same term in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The German embassy in Belarus described the charges against Bahinskaja as \u201cunfair and politically motivated.”<\/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

When Bahinskaja took to the street with an opposition flag in 2022, the German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost<\/em> described her as \u201cthe last Belarusian demonstrator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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