{"id":42559,"date":"2022-06-13T17:42:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/some-60-groups-branded-extremist-over-one-hundred-people-charged\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"some-60-groups-branded-extremist-over-one-hundred-people-charged","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/42559\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 60 groups branded extremist, over one hundred people charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>June 13, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Belarus\u2019 interior ministry and Committee for the State Security (KGB) have branded over 60 groups as extremist, Hienad\u017a Kazakievi\u010d, a deputy interior minister and the head of the Belarusian criminal police, told the interior ministry&#8217;s official newspaper <span>Na Strazhe<\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t He said that the police were actively working to identify the organizers and participants of these groups, noting that they were directed from abroad. According to the interior ministry, over one hundred Belarusians were prosecuted for creating and participating in extremist groups, including on charges of committing sabotage on the railroads.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In October 2021, the government passed a directive entitled &#8220;On Measures to Counter Extremism and Rehabilitation of Nazism&#8221; as part of its efforts to enforce an anti-extremism law.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The interior ministry&#8217;s list of extremist groups features about 70 entries. <span>BelaPAN<\/span>, <span>Belsat TV<\/span>, <span>Radio Svaboda<\/span>, <span>Na\u0161a Niva<\/span>, and <span>KYKY<\/span> are among the blacklisted media organizations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Minsk Regional Court is hearing a criminal case against <span>BelaPAN<\/span> executives this week. The defendants are BelaPAN\u2019s editor in chief Iryna Le\u016d\u0161yna, former CEO \u0179mi\u0107er Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d, and media manager Andrej Alaksandra\u016d, the company\u2019s deputy director from 2014 to 2018. Alaksandra\u016d\u2019s girlfriend Iryna Z\u0142obina is also on trial.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The journalists face numerous charges, including creation of an extremist group, high treason, and tax evasion. They are also charged with \u201caiding the foreign organization By_Help\u201d in \u201cactivities aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus.\u201d Human rights defenders say that their persecution is politically motivated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On June 8, Andrej Kuz\u0144e\u010dyk, a <span>RFE\/RL<\/span> Belarus Service contributor, was sentenced to six years in a high-security prison on charges of establishing an extremist group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 13, BPN. Belarus\u2019 interior ministry and Committee for the State Security (KGB) have branded over 60 groups as extremist, Hienad\u017a Kazakievi\u010d, a deputy interior minister and the head of the Belarusian criminal police, told the interior ministry&#8217;s official newspaper Na Strazhe. He said that the police were actively working to identify the organizers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-42559","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>Some 60 groups branded extremist, over one hundred people charged | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 13, BPN. 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