{"id":152998,"date":"2025-08-29T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152998\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-police-target-management-of-major-ticketing-service","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152998\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: police target management of major ticketing service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

August 29, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on August 28 as police arrested managers of the Kvitki.by ticket-selling service, Na\u0161a Niva <\/em>reported.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service\u2019s Facebook account most recent update was made six days ago, while the website remained inaccessible both from Belarus and abroad for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state-run ONT<\/em> TV channel reported the arrest of Jahor Bu\u017ey\u0142a\u016d from the Belaruskicry jewelry brand declared an extremist group a month ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anatol Kota\u016d of the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Fund (BSSF), who has been missing since August 21 after landing in Turkey, left that country on the same day through the Black Sea Port of Trabzon, IHA<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minsk courts have issued 2,410 rulings on violent disorder charges that authorities use to persecute participants in 2020 postelection protests, the Viasna Human Rights Center said. This amounts to 70 percent of all verdicts on this charge. Judge Viktoryja \u0160abunia passed at least 109 verdicts in politically-motivated cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of August 29, human rights defenders identified at least 1,191 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher due to many undocumented cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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