{"id":204992,"date":"2026-09-24T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/204992\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:38:42","slug":"reprisals-oil-refinery-production-manager-sentenced-for-extremism","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/204992\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprisals: oil refinery production manager sentenced for extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 24, <em>Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Sources in Belarus reported several incidents of repression on September 22 and 23. Below is\u00a0<em>Pozirk\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0recap of what was reported:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ja\u016dhien Viarchiej, one of the production unit managers at the Mazyr oil refinery, was arrested in late 2025 and later sentenced on charges of facilitating extremist activities, the Viasna Human Rights Center said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The information ministry branded <em>hutka_news<\/em> and <em>vass_upes<\/em> on Instagram as \u201cextremist\u201d content. Other blacklisted pages are <em>Novosti Gomelya i Ne Tolko<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Pulse News <\/em>on TikTok, along with several Facebook pages, including a repeated designation for the page of exiled activist Mika\u0142aj Dziadok.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Police officers should be allowed to take decisions \u201cunder special conditions\u201d without a prosecutorial warrant, Interior Minister Ivan Kubrako\u016d\u00a0said during a police command staff exercise in the Homiel region yesterday, <em>Pozirk<\/em> reported.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belarusian law enforcers have not given up attempts to recruit members of the opposition Coordination Council. One of its members told rights defenders the Committee for State Security (KGB) agents have been pressuring his family in Belarus and trying to contact him through his relatives for three months. Viasna said it knows of other similar incidents reported recently.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As of September 24, human rights defenders identified at least 883 political prisoners, but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/09\/mvd-uchenia-2-23-09-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mvd-uchenia-2-23-09-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mvd-uchenia-2-23-09-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mvd-uchenia-2-23-09-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mvd-uchenia-2-23-09-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mvd-uchenia-2-23-09.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Interior minister wants police to be allowed to act without prosecutorial warrant<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">September 23,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;It is necessary to ensure that police officers are allowed to take decisions \u201cunder special conditions\u201d without a prosecutorial warrant, Interior Minister Ivan Kubrako\u016d&nbsp;said during a police command staff exercise in the Homiel region on September 23.&nbsp; Kubrako\u016d&nbsp;emphasized the &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/204962\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, Pozirk. 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