{"id":43669,"date":"2022-09-08T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/rabkova-pleaded-not-guilty-to-all-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"rabkova-pleaded-not-guilty-to-all-charges","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43669\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabkova pleaded not guilty to all charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>September 8, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Belarusian human rights defender Marfa Rabkova pleaded not guilty to all charges, according to her last statement published by the Viasna Human Rights House on September 8. <\/p>\n<p> Her long list of charges included creating an extremist organization, organizing riots and inciting hatred. The activist described it as absurd, fabricated and invented by the interior ministry\u2019s organized crime unit GUBOPiK, which she compared to Gestapo.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cYou label me as an extremist and claim that I am a \u2018desctructive element,\u2019 \u2018embittered\u2019 and \u2018without roots.\u2019 But I am part of society, just like all of you. The only difference is that I call things by their proper names and can\u2019t help but react. Violence is violence, repression is repression and war is war,\u201d she told the court.<\/p>\n<p> The Minsk City Court on September 6 imposed lengthy prison sentences on two human rights defenders and eight anarchist activists. Viasna\u2019s coordinator Marfa Rabkova was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and its volunteer Andrej \u010capiuk to six.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups called their persecution politically motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 8, BPN. 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