{"id":154012,"date":"2025-09-05T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/154012\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"interior-ministry-adds-68-names-to-list-of-extremists","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/154012\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior ministry adds 68 names to list of \u201cextremists\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 5,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/strong>Belarus\u2019 interior ministry has added as many as 68 persons to its list of \u201cextremists\u201d taking the total to 5,745.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human rights groups condemned the designations, noting that authorities abuse anti-extremist and other criminal laws to suppress the political opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numerous additions suggest that political reprisals continue unabated or might have intensified regardless of pardons for some 300 political prisoners in the last 12 months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only three of the 68 additions have been documented as political prisoners by human rights groups. Human rights organizations have been unaware of the persecution of most of the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zakliuchenie_unsplash_marco_chilese_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> \u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">\u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Rights groups recognize 14 political prisoners, including a Briton<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">September 5,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;The Belarusian human rights defenders have declared 14 more people as political prisoners, taking their total to 1,198, says a statement posted by the Viasna Human Rights Center. The new designees\u2014Volha Nika\u0142ajeva, Raman Viesia\u0142o\u016dski, Andrej Matusienka, Kiryl Leskie\u0107, Alaksandar &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/154002\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 5,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 interior ministry has added as many as 68 persons to its list of \u201cextremists\u201d taking the total to 5,745. Human rights groups condemned the designations, noting that authorities abuse anti-extremist and other criminal laws to suppress the political opposition. The numerous additions suggest that political reprisals continue unabated or might have intensified regardless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":87832,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-154012","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>Interior ministry adds 68 names to list of \u201cextremists\u201d | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 5,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 interior ministry has added as many as 68 persons to its list of \u201cextremists\u201d taking the total to 5,745. 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