{"id":163792,"date":"2025-11-12T11:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/163792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"reprisals-man-given-two-years-in-prison-for-insulting-lukasenka","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/163792\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: man given two years in prison for insulting \u0141uka\u0161enka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>November 12, <\/strong><em><strong>Pozirk.<\/strong> <\/em>New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on November 11 with a two-year prison sentence handed to Vadzim Zdaravienny on charges of insulting Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His brother Alaksandar remains in custody, <em>Flagshtok<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials branded the Sustre\u010da volunteer center as an extremist group based on the Belarusian interior ministry\u2019s decision dated November 5. The interior ministry also labelled seven people as \u201cinvolved in extremist activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information ministry announced extremist designations for the website and social media pages of former prisoner Siarhiej Cichano\u016dski, who now lives in exile with his wife, Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other blacklisted content includes the Facebook page by Belarusian pro-democracy forces in Kyiv, GlavredTV YouTube channel and Kobryn page on Odnoklassniki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rights defenders confirmed at least 122 arrests linked to persecution of those who shared information with the now-defunct Bie\u0142aruski Hajun defense monitoring initiative, the Viasna Human Rights Center said. The actual number may be higher, and arrests still continue across Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of November 12, human rights defenders identified at least 1,235 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 12, Pozirk. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on November 11 with a two-year prison sentence handed to Vadzim Zdaravienny on charges of insulting Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka. His brother Alaksandar remains in custody, Flagshtok reported. Officials branded the Sustre\u010da volunteer center as an extremist group based on the Belarusian interior ministry\u2019s decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-163792","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>Reprisals: man given two years in prison for insulting \u0141uka\u0161enka | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 12, Pozirk. 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