{"id":178329,"date":"2026-03-06T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/178329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"interior-ministry-designates-20-as-extremists","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/178329\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior ministry designates 20 as extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Ron Dyar \/ unsplash.com)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 6,<em> Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Belarus\u2019 interior ministry added 20 names to its list of extremists, taking the total of entries on the register to 6,373.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The additions include Alaksandar Zdaravienna\u016d, serving a ten-year prison term on high prison and extremism-related charges and Siarhiej Karda\u0161, convicted over links to grassroots opposition initiatives. Rights groups listed both as political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrej Kuliko\u016d, Michai\u0142 Bukatka, Via\u010das\u0142a\u016d Micha\u0142ap, Andrej \u017duk, Alaksiej Kuzavatkin, Kanstancin Bojka, D\u017amitryj Kavalo\u016d and Viera Kananienka are serving sentences on charges ranging from inciting hatred and insulting officials to facilitating extremist activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sentences of Pavie\u0142 Biassona\u016d, Siarhiej Zimin, Valancin Hlinski, Dzianis Namiestnika\u016d, Maryja \u0160akura, Ilona Harbunovi\u010d, Siarhiej Zialony, Michai\u0142 \u010catyrbok, Alaksiej Kra\u016d\u010danka and Vadzim Litko remain incomplete, which means that they may be serving non-custodial terms. Most of them were convicted on extremism-related charges that authorities increasingly use to persecute regime critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People placed on the list of individuals involved in extremist activities are banned from any education- and publishing-related activity, as well as from holding state positions and from doing military service, for five years after completing their sentences or after the related conviction is deleted from the criminal record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their financial transactions are subject to close monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the crackdown on the 2020 postelection protests, authorities in Belarus equated criticism, solidarity, advocacy, the free media and free expression to extremism and terrorism.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <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\">Reprisals: dissident woman on non-custodial sentence dies<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">March 5, Pozirk. Alena Pankova, convicted on protest-related charges, passed away. The woman, blacklisted as a \u201cperson involved in extremist activities\u201d last September, was likely serving a non-custodial sentence, Pozirk reported. Other cases of politically-motivated persecution documented in Belarus on &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/178150\">\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>March 6, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 interior ministry added 20 names to its list of extremists, taking the total of entries on the register to 6,373. The additions include Alaksandar Zdaravienna\u016d, serving a ten-year prison term on high prison and extremism-related charges and Siarhiej Karda\u0161, convicted over links to grassroots opposition initiatives. 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