{"id":164177,"date":"2025-11-14T19:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/164177\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"belarus-adds-25-to-extremist-list-six-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/164177\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus adds 25 to extremist list; six political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>November 14, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Police in Belarus have added 25 people to the extremist list, six designated political prisoners among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They include Ja\u016dhieni Va\u0142ychin, sentenced to 4.5 years for allegedly insulting the head of state, inciting hatred and calling for sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also include Alaksandar Machna\u010d (four years) and Jaras\u0142a\u016d Chrom\u010danka\u016d (three years), sentenced in the Bie\u0142aruski Hajun case on extremism and other charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The others are Alesia Viaro\u016dkina, Iryna Ki\u0161kurna and Ta\u0107ciana Miniec (two years each), sentenced in the grassroots chats case for supposed membership in extremist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from them, seven people marked \u201cserving a sentence\u201d were named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dozen more were listed with the note \u201cconviction not expunged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-cropped-Logo_gray_transparent_-2@2x-1.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Society<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Society<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Belarusian media Plan B designated by Minsk as extremist group<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">November 13, Pozirk.&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 Committee for State Security (KGB) on November 5 designated Plan B, an independent media organization, as an extremist group. 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They also include Alaksandar Machna\u010d (four years) and Jaras\u0142a\u016d Chrom\u010danka\u016d (three years), sentenced in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-164177","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 25 to extremist list; six political prisoners | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 14, Pozirk. Police in Belarus have added 25 people to the extremist list, six designated political prisoners among them. 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