{"id":179902,"date":"2026-03-18T19:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/179902\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:25:43","slug":"kgb-outlaws-two-advocacy-groups-northern-lights-festival-as-extremist-organizations","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/179902\/","title":{"rendered":"KGB outlaws two advocacy groups, Northern Lights festival as \u201cextremist organizations\u201d"},"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\/2025\/02\/kgb_mogilevnews_by.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kgb_mogilevnews_by.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kgb_mogilevnews_by-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kgb_mogilevnews_by-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kgb_mogilevnews_by-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kgb_mogilevnews_by-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(mogilevnews.com)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 18, <em>Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Belarus\u2019 Committee for State Security (KGB) outlawed the advocacy organizations Human Constanta and Spadcyna Belarusi and the Northern Lights film festival as \u201cextremist groups\u201d on March 11 in an effort to prosecute activists and organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interior ministry added the respective entries to its register of \u201cextremist groups\u201d containing 340 items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KGB also published the names of individuals allegedly associated with these \u201cextremist\u201d organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human Constanta: Hanna Barano\u016dskaja, Alaksiej Kazluk, Nasta Lojka (serving a seven-year prison term), Jana Han\u010darova, Enira Branickaja, Valeryja Kustava, Kiryl Kafana\u016d, Andrej Su\u0161ko and Julija Stasiuk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northern Lights \u2013 a festival of films from Northern Europe, the Baltics, Ukraine and Belarus launched in Minsk in 2015 \u2013 Volha \u010cajko\u016dskaja, Nadzieja Zielankova and Dar\u2019ja \u017duk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spadcyna Belarusi \u2013 a Wroc\u0142aw-based safe space for political emigrants and LGBT+, &#8211;Dar\u2019ja Ziamlanskaja and Anastasija Sasykbajeva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the crackdown on the 2020 postelection protests, authorities in Belarus have equated criticism, solidarity, advocacy, the free media and free expression to extremism and terrorism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\/2026\/03\/adamovich-svaboda-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/adamovich-svaboda-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/adamovich-svaboda-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/adamovich-svaboda-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/adamovich-svaboda-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/adamovich-svaboda.jpg 1127w\" 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\">Statkievi\u010d\u2019s wife released after spending four hours in detention<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">March 17, Pozirk. Police released Maryna Adamovi\u010d, the wife of prominent opposition politician Mika\u0142aj Statkevi\u010d, after holding her four hours in detention. She was not \u201cinterrogated, just held\u201d at the Leninski district police station, Statkievi\u010d wrote in his Telegram channel. &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/179804\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 Committee for State Security (KGB) outlawed the advocacy organizations Human Constanta and Spadcyna Belarusi and the Northern Lights film festival as \u201cextremist groups\u201d on March 11 in an effort to prosecute activists and organizers. The interior ministry added the respective entries to its register of \u201cextremist groups\u201d containing 340 items. 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