{"id":2136,"date":"2023-08-18T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=2136"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"human-rights-organizations-declare-seven-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/2136\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights organizations declare seven political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 18,&nbsp;<em>BPN.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong>Belarusian human rights organizations have declared seven people political prisoners, saying they were charged with public order offenses for exercising their rights to peaceful assembly and expression in the post-election period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement today, the groups including the Viasna Human Rights Center, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, and Belarusian PEN called on the authorities to immediately release all citizens arrested for peaceful protests after the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human rights defenders identified at least 1,496 political prisoners at the time of writing, but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented. Opposition sources estimate the number of political prisoners at around 5,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New designations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Julija Dzienisievi\u010d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hanna \u0160yrviel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mika\u0142aj Ma\u0161arski<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andrej Mira\u0161ni\u010denka<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jahor Zachar\u010duk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anatol Bahovik<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ivanna Bahovik<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 18,&nbsp;BPN.&nbsp;Belarusian human rights organizations have declared seven people political prisoners, saying they were charged with public order offenses for exercising their rights to peaceful assembly and expression in the post-election period. In a statement today, the groups including the Viasna Human Rights Center, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, and Belarusian PEN called on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-2136","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Human rights organizations declare seven political prisoners | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 18,&nbsp;BPN.&nbsp;Belarusian human rights organizations have declared seven people political prisoners, saying they were charged with public order\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/2136\/\" \/>\n<meta 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