{"id":189087,"date":"2026-05-25T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/189087\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:03:03","slug":"belarus-opens-new-criminal-case-against-politician-freed-in-a-deal-with-washington","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/189087\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus opens new criminal case against politician freed in a deal with Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>May 25, <em>Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Belarus has opened a new criminal case against an opposition politician who was released from prison in December in Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s deal with Washington and forced into exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pavie\u0142 Sieviaryniec, an outspoken critic of the Belarusian ruler, said on Facebook that investigators are pressing charges in connection with his role in the opposition\u2019s Freedom Day celebrations abroad. Police have searched a home linked to him in Viciebsk, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sieviaryniec led the organizing committee for celebrations of Dzie\u0144 Voli (Freedom Day), an anniversary of the declaration of short-lived independence by Belarus in 1918 marked by the opposition as a major holiday but criminalized by Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sieviaryniec was released on December 13 among 123 prisoners taken out of Belarus to Ukraine and later to Lithuania and Poland following a meeting between \u0141uka\u0161enka and John Coale, the US special envoy to Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seviaryniec, co-chairman of the now banned Belarusian Christian Democracy party, was arrested in June 2020 after an authorized signature-collection event in support of presidential hopeful \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja. In May 2021, he was given seven years in prison on charges of preparing mass riots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, authorities blacklisted him as a person \u201cinvolved in extremist activities\u201d and transferred him from a penal colony to prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seviaryniec and his wife and son currently reside in Vilnius, Lithuania.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/survilla-radabnr-org-354x176.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/survilla-radabnr-org-354x176.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/survilla-radabnr-org-734x364.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/survilla-radabnr-org-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/survilla-radabnr-org.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Belarus\u2019 oldest government in exile greets the nation on Dzie\u0144 Voli<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">March 25, Pozirk. The Rada of the Belarusian People\u2019s Republic (BNR), a successor to the first government of independent Belarus, has greeted Belarusians on Dzie\u0144 Voli (Freedom Day), the 108th anniversary of the proclamation by the BNR in 1918. Canada-based &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/180875\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 25, Pozirk. Belarus has opened a new criminal case against an opposition politician who was released from prison in December in Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s deal with Washington and forced into exile. Pavie\u0142 Sieviaryniec, an outspoken critic of the Belarusian ruler, said on Facebook that investigators are pressing charges in connection with his role in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":189164,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-189087","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 opens new criminal case against politician freed in a deal with Washington | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 25, Pozirk. 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