{"id":144180,"date":"2025-06-26T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/144180\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"prosecutor-claims-applications-from-returnees-doubled-this-year","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/144180\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor claims applications from returnees doubled this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 26, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Belarus\u2019 government commission that considers applications from emigrants wishing to return to their homeland has received about 300 requests since February 2023, Prosecutor General Andrej \u0160vied told the state newspaper <em>SB. Belarus Segodnya<\/em> in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe number of applications has doubled this year,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 26, \u0160vied reported that more than 30 applicants received approval and 20 returned to Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Viasna Human Rights Center, Belarus arrested several dozen returnees over a month and a half this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials formed the commission after a meeting with Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka in January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 3, 2024, the BEROC center presented a study on the adaptation of immigrants from Belarus and Ukraine in the European Union\u2019s labor market. The study found that the majority of Belarusian immigrants would be willing to return to their homeland if there were a different government and no reprisals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEROC research fellow Vijaleta Panasievi\u010d said an estimated 500,000 people had left Belarus after the 2020 political unrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/143044\/\">Prosecutor\u2019s commission discusses eight return requests from political exiles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 government commission that considers applications from emigrants wishing to return to their homeland has received about 300 requests since February 2023, Prosecutor General Andrej \u0160vied told the state newspaper SB. Belarus Segodnya in an interview. \u201cThe number of applications has doubled this year,\u201d the official said. On February 26, \u0160vied reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":123330,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-144180","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>Prosecutor claims applications from returnees doubled this year | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 26, Pozirk. 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