{"id":160515,"date":"2025-10-17T22:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/160515\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"belarus-adds-23-to-extremist-list","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/160515\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus adds 23 to extremist list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>October 17, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>The Belarusian interior ministry has added 23 people to the extremist list, including Maryna Pietra\u017eyckaja, who was declared a political prisoner in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Viasna Human Rights Center, Pietra\u017eyckaja is serving a two-year sentence for alleged links to grassroots chats. Authorities accused her of \u201cmembership in an extremist group.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other additions faced such charges as high treason, insulting the head of state, discrediting Belarus, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now there are 5,898 items in the document posted on the ministry\u2019s website.<\/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\/11\/\u0442\u044e\u0440\u044c\u043c\u0430-\u0441\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0446\u0435-\u043f\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0439-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u0442\u044e\u0440\u044c\u043c\u0430-\u0441\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0446\u0435-\u043f\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0439-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u0442\u044e\u0440\u044c\u043c\u0430-\u0441\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0446\u0435-\u043f\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0439-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u0442\u044e\u0440\u044c\u043c\u0430-\u0441\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0446\u0435-\u043f\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0439-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u0442\u044e\u0440\u044c\u043c\u0430-\u0441\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0446\u0435-\u043f\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0439.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <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\">Belarus labels 27 more as \u201cextremists\u201d amid dissent suppression<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">October 10, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 interior ministry has added 27 people to the list of \u201cpersons involved in extremist activity.\u201d According to human rights defenders, authorities routinely abuse extremism laws to stifle dissent. The ministry listed Artur Syrakva\u0161a, Alaksandar Vierabiej, Iryna &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/159553\">\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>October 17, Pozirk. The Belarusian interior ministry has added 23 people to the extremist list, including Maryna Pietra\u017eyckaja, who was declared a political prisoner in August. According to the Viasna Human Rights Center, Pietra\u017eyckaja is serving a two-year sentence for alleged links to grassroots chats. Authorities accused her of \u201cmembership in an extremist group.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-160515","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>Belarus adds 23 to extremist list | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 17, Pozirk. 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