{"id":143321,"date":"2025-06-19T18:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/143321\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"petitions-by-signees-may-face-extremism-charges","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/143321\/","title":{"rendered":"Petitions.by signees may face extremism charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 19, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Belarus\u2019 law enforcement practice is such that the signees of appeals on the Petitions.by website may be prosecuted for extremism, human rights lawyer Viktoryja Rudziankova said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interior ministry declared Petitions.b\u0443 extremist yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn most cases, these designations have a political, not legal nature,\u201d said Rudziankova, of the Viasna center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey are aimed at suppressing public activity and reducing the civic space as much as possible in order to strictly filter it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that the practice contradicts basic human rights, such as freedom of expression and right to public participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Petitions.by is a service for public, collective appeals to government bodies. It has been blocked inside Belarus since 2021.<\/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\/02\/mvd-soyuz.by-1128-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mvd-soyuz.by-1128-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mvd-soyuz.by-1128-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mvd-soyuz.by-1128-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mvd-soyuz.by-1128-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mvd-soyuz.by-1128.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Petitions.b\u0443 and Adu.pl\u0430\u0441\u0435 projects declared \u201cextremist groups\u201d<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">June 19, Pozirk. The interior ministry yesterday designated the Petitions.b\u0443 project as an \u201cextremist group,\u201d according to the latest update of the extremism register. It named economist U\u0142adzimir Kava\u0142kin as an accomplice and banned the project\u2019s website and social media. &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/143316\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 19, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 law enforcement practice is such that the signees of appeals on the Petitions.by website may be prosecuted for extremism, human rights lawyer Viktoryja Rudziankova said. The interior ministry declared Petitions.b\u0443 extremist yesterday. \u201cIn most cases, these designations have a political, not legal nature,\u201d said Rudziankova, of the Viasna center. \u201cThey are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":49661,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-143321","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>Petitions.by signees may face extremism charges | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 19, Pozirk. 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