{"id":3174,"date":"2023-09-29T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=3174"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"interior-ministry-adds-34-to-its-extremist-list-2","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/3174\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior ministry adds 34 to its &#8220;extremist&#8221; list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 29,\u00a0<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0The interior ministry has added 34 more names to the list of &#8220;persons involved in extremist activities,&#8221; taking their total to 3,358.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 12 new names on the list are people designated by human rights groups as political prisoners. These include jailed members of Sajuz Bie\u0142aruskaha Nacyjanalnaha \u0160\u010dyta (the Belarusian National Shield Union), an opposition group deemed extremist in Belarus: Kiry\u0142 Ba\u0142achona\u016d, Aleh Dabrydnio\u016d, U\u0142adzis\u0142a\u016d Jefimovi\u010d (three and a half years in prison each) and Alaksandar Rukoj\u0107 (three years).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list also features Maksim Drabnica currently serving an eight-year prison term on extremism-related charges; Aleh Karda\u0161 (18 months in prison), Alaksandar Tarasienka (two years), Valeryj Chamienka (two and a half years), and Andrej Famin (seven years), convicted of crimes ranging from defamation to calling for sanctions as well as D\u017amitryj \u0141ahucienka, Rus\u0142an Rebkaviec and Vieranika Niko\u0142kina whose verdicts were not disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People placed on the list of individuals involved in extremist activities are prohibited from engaging in education activity, publishing, as well as from holding state positions and from doing military service, for five years after completing their sentences or criminal record annulment. Their financial transactions are subject to special monitoring. They are also banned from activities involving narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, arms and ammunition and explosives, for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities in Belarus have equated criticism, solidarity, advocacy, free media and free expression to extremism and terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarusian Foreign Minister Siarhiej Alejnik denied the existence of political prisoners in Belarus. &#8220;All the people who are detained are detained for criminal charges which have been proved in the courts. And so that\u2019s it,&#8221; he told&nbsp;<em>AP<\/em>&nbsp;earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 29,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0The interior ministry has added 34 more names to the list of &#8220;persons involved in extremist activities,&#8221; taking their total to 3,358. 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These include jailed members of Sajuz Bie\u0142aruskaha Nacyjanalnaha \u0160\u010dyta (the Belarusian National Shield Union), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-3174","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>Interior ministry adds 34 to its &quot;extremist&quot; list | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 29,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0The interior ministry has added 34 more names to the list of &quot;persons involved in extremist activities,&quot; taking their total to\" \/>\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\/3174\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interior ministry adds 34 to its &quot;extremist&quot; 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