{"id":43654,"date":"2022-09-07T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/belarusian-rights-activists-meet-finnish-foreign-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"belarusian-rights-activists-meet-finnish-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43654\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian rights activists meet Finnish foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>September 7, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Members of the Belarusian human rights community have met with Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, the Viasna Human Rights Center reports.<\/p>\n<p> The activists informed Haavisto of the human rights situation in Belarus, the state of society and attitudes to the war in Ukraine. They noted that the extent of intimidation and torture used by the authorities against civilians remains high. The number of political prisoners is on the rise, and seven Viasna members, including its head Ale\u015b Bialacki, remain behind bars. Particular attention was paid to yesterday\u2019s harsh sentence to Viasna\u2019s coordinator Marfa Rabkova and volunteer Andrej \u010capiuk, 15 and six years in prison, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Viasna lawyer Pavie\u0142 Sapie\u0142ka said: \u201cThis meeting is an important evidence that the Belarusian agenda \u2013 the situation in the country, the state of civil society organizations and the degree of the human rights crisis \u2013 remains high in democratic countries, despite the objective situation that has developed after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the crisis it has caused.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 7, BPN. Members of the Belarusian human rights community have met with Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, the Viasna Human Rights Center reports. The activists informed Haavisto of the human rights situation in Belarus, the state of society and attitudes to the war in Ukraine. They noted that the extent of intimidation and torture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43654","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>Belarusian rights activists meet Finnish foreign minister | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 7, BPN. 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