{"id":145987,"date":"2025-07-09T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/145987\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-police-cracking-down-on-2020-protesters-shown-in-polish-documentary","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/145987\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: police crack down on 2020 protesters shown in Polish documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former prisoner facing criminal charges for insulting \u0141uka\u0161enka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jailed blogger\u2019s brother sentenced to restricted freedom in Bie\u0142aruski Hajun case<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imprisoned senior\u2019s village house sold at auction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 9, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on July 8 with a new wave of arrests linked to 2020 postelection protests. Law enforcers identified more regime critics in a Polish documentary that did not blur the faces of protesters who now face violent disorder charges, the Viasna Human Rights Center said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criminal cases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blogger Ivan Maroza\u016d was arrested for allegedly insulting Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, Dissidentby reported. Earlier, he had served 18 months in prison on protest-related charges that rights defenders considered politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mikita \u0141osik, the 25-year-old brother of jailed journalist Ihar \u0141osik, was given three years of restricted freedom in an open-type correctional facility yesterday in Viciebsk,\u00a0Radyjo Svaboda\u00a0<\/em>reported. Authorities persecuted him on charges of facilitating extremism for sharing several pictures with the now-defunct Bie\u0142aruski Hajun online project that had monitored Russian military activities in Belarus since 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maksim Urbanovi\u010d, a brother of activist Dzianis Urbanovi\u010d fighting Russia in Ukraine, has not appealed the 18-month prison sentence imposed on him on violent disorder charges and is awaiting transfer to a penal colony, Pozirk <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online content<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information ministry announced extremist content designations for kresy24.pl<\/em>, Bie\u0142aruskaja Akademija. Pytanni I Adkazy <\/em>and Bataljon Pale\u015bse<\/em> on Telegram; Stylski_dd<\/em>  on TikTok; moondragon_wkad<\/em>, neza.budem<\/em>, denismatrixon<\/em>, \u0441heshirskii_kot<\/em>, maryna.pr_<\/em>, \u0430lleko83<\/em> on Instagram, an anarchist group on VKontakte and several other pages on Odnoklassniki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other cases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities auctioned off a village house in the Minsk region\u2019s Nia\u015bvi\u017e district that most likely belonged to Vasil Dzemidovi\u010d, 73, who is serving a seven-year prison term on charges widely seen as politically motivated and was branded as a terrorist by the KGB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prison administrations have been authorized to deduct detention costs from the pensions of jailed seniors, Radyjo Svaboda<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 9, human rights defenders identified at least 1,153 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent decrease in documented cases is attributed to the Supreme Court blocking access to its electronic schedule of trials and database of rulings since early April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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