{"id":43443,"date":"2022-08-23T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/new-politically-motivated-arrests-persecution-of-activists-in-belarus\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"new-politically-motivated-arrests-persecution-of-activists-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43443\/","title":{"rendered":"New politically motivated arrests, persecution of activists in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>August 23, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>The police arrested 14 people in Belarus on August 22, among them Alaksandra Kandracienka, a student at the Belarusian State University, Minsk businessman Ja\u016dhien Kanavalenka, Hrodna Azot employee Ihar Stefanovi\u010d, Maryja Rasto\u016dcava, Hienad\u017a Drazdo\u016d, and Viktar Maciejkovi\u010d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Artist Natalla Karnejeva and her husband were also arrested, while their underage daughter was sent to an orphanage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Minsk restaurant business owner Siarhiej Mirharadski together with his wife Ala and son Serafim, Illa \u0160\u010dahalo\u016d, Alaksiej Anani\u010d, and former beauty queen Darja Reut were arrested for participation in the 2020 post-election protests.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t D\u017amitryj Kunusa\u016d from Minsk got three years in prison on charges of insulting a public official and inciting hatred. Video blogger Andrej Biala\u016dski was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka. Alaksiej Maciavin and Maksim Platnio\u016d were sentenced to 18 months in prison each, for insulting \u0141uka\u0161enka and damaging public property, respectively. Human rights groups declared all of them political prisoners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t D\u017amitry Dzikun, charged under a number of Criminal Code articles and blacklisted by the authorities as a terrorist, was placed in a punishment cell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Singer Meryjem Hierasimenka, sentenced to 15 days jail over performance of Ukrainian songs in a bar, was given 10 more days in jail.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Telegram channel <span>Minskaya Semiboyarshchina <\/span>was declared extremist content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 23, BPN. The police arrested 14 people in Belarus on August 22, among them Alaksandra Kandracienka, a student at the Belarusian State University, Minsk businessman Ja\u016dhien Kanavalenka, Hrodna Azot employee Ihar Stefanovi\u010d, Maryja Rasto\u016dcava, Hienad\u017a Drazdo\u016d, and Viktar Maciejkovi\u010d. Artist Natalla Karnejeva and her husband were also arrested, while their underage daughter was sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43443","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>New politically motivated arrests, persecution of activists in Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 23, BPN. 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