{"id":185518,"date":"2026-04-29T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/185518\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:35:14","slug":"reprisals-former-prisoners-charged-over-interviews","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/185518\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: former prisoners charged over interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 29,<em> Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>New cases of politically-motivated persecution documented in Belarus on April 28 included new criminal charges filed against former designated political prisoners over interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the cases targets exiled Alaksiej Ramana\u016d, who had earlier served one year in prison for allegedly insulting Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka. Law enforcers searched his family\u2019s home in connection with his 2014 interview with the Warsaw-based <em>Belsat<\/em> TV channel, the Viasna Human Rights Center said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanna Kurys, liberated in December 2025 after \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s deal with Washington, faces criminal charges over her interview with Viasna. She is accused of facilitating extremist activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the information ministry blacklisted Viasna\u2019s Threads page as \u201cextremist\u201d content along with several other Threads pages; <em>Deutsch-belarussische Gesellschaft (dbg)<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Botschaft des Volkes von Belarus in Deutschland<\/em> on Facebook;<em>\u00a0volat_uav_group<\/em>,\u00a0<em>bkspahonia<\/em> and<em> team_ivulin<\/em> on Instagram, <em>grodnonovosti44<\/em>\u00a0on TikTok and several others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Minsk released and handed over to Poland journalist Andrej Pa\u010dobut, Polish monk Grzegorz Gawe\u0142 and Polish national Tomasz Bieroza as part of a five-for-five exchange at the Belarusian-Polish border, <em>Pozirk <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raman Ramana\u016d, who had earlier served two years in prison for allegedly insulting \u0141uka\u0161enka, died aged 43, <em>Na\u0161a Niva<\/em> said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of April 29, human rights defenders identified at least 831 political prisoners, but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/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\/04\/reform_logo_fb_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reform_logo_fb_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reform_logo_fb_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reform_logo_fb_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reform_logo_fb_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/reform_logo_fb_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <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\">Interior ministry labels Reform.news as \u201cextremist\u201d group<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">April 29, Pozirk. The Belarusian interior ministry designated the Reform.news&nbsp;media project as an \u201cextremist&quot; group yesterday, says the updated register, which now contains 364 entries. Officials identified Fiodar Pa\u016dlu\u010denka, Alaksandar Atro\u0161\u010danka\u016d and Alaksiej \u017duka\u016d as members, blacklisting reform.news, reformby.org, an &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/185514\">\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>April 29, Pozirk. New cases of politically-motivated persecution documented in Belarus on April 28 included new criminal charges filed against former designated political prisoners over interviews. One of the cases targets exiled Alaksiej Ramana\u016d, who had earlier served one year in prison for allegedly insulting Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka. Law enforcers searched his family\u2019s home in connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-185518","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: former prisoners charged over interviews | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 29, Pozirk. 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