{"id":2505,"date":"2023-08-21T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=2505"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"lithuania-turns-down-belarusian-activists-asylum-request-citing-ties-with-moscow","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/2505\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania turns down Belarusian activist&#8217;s asylum request citing ties with Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 21,&nbsp;<em>BPN.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Lithuania has turned down a request for political asylum from Belarusian regime critic Volha Kara\u010d, accusing her of links with Russian intelligence services,&nbsp;<em>BNS<\/em>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kara\u010d leads the exiled opposition center Na\u0161 Dom (Our Home). She was a member of the Viciebsk council of deputies and ran for parliament in 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lithuanian authorities claimed that she visited Russia from 2015 to 2019 to meet intelligence agents there. She allegedly briefed the Russians on the Belarusian regime and the opposition, and sought support for her political activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kara\u010d, whom the&nbsp;Belarusian secret service&nbsp;accused of terrorism in 2021, denied cooperating with any &#8220;hostile agencies&#8221; in Minsk or Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 21,&nbsp;BPN.&nbsp;Lithuania has turned down a request for political asylum from Belarusian regime critic Volha Kara\u010d, accusing her of links with Russian intelligence services,&nbsp;BNS&nbsp;reported. Kara\u010d leads the exiled opposition center Na\u0161 Dom (Our Home). She was a member of the Viciebsk council of deputies and ran for parliament in 2000s. Lithuanian authorities claimed that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-2505","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lithuania turns down Belarusian activist&#039;s asylum request citing ties with Moscow | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 21,&nbsp;BPN.&nbsp;Lithuania has turned down a request for political asylum from Belarusian regime critic Volha Kara\u010d, accusing her of links with\" \/>\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\/2505\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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