{"id":43826,"date":"2022-09-21T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T09:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/update-on-trials-criminal-proceedings-politically-motivated-persecution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"update-on-trials-criminal-proceedings-politically-motivated-persecution","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43826\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on trials, criminal proceedings, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>September 21, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on September 20.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Trials\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A court in Minsk sentenced protestant pastor Via\u010das\u0142a\u016d Han\u010darenka to a fine of 3,200 rubels (over $1,260), presumably for holding an &#8220;unauthorized meeting&#8221; on September 18.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Criminal proceedings\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The closed-door trial of <span>BelaPAN<\/span> journalists was set to resume on September 21 after a break of almost three months due to forensics and participants&#8217; illness. The defendants include <span>BelaPAN <\/span>CEO and editor in chief Iryna Le\u016d\u0161yna, former CEO D\u017amitryj Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d, former deputy CEO Andrej Alaksandra\u016d and his wife Iryna Z\u0142obina.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t They face the charges of creating an extremist group (Alaksandra\u016d, Le\u016d\u0161yna, Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d), treason (Alaksandra\u016d, Zlobina), tax evasion (Alaksandra\u016d, Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d), and participating in protests (Alaksandra\u016d and Z\u0142obina, who paid protesters\u2019 fines). Human rights groups declared all four political prisoners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Supreme Court upheld the eight-year prison sentence for prominent journalist Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachva\u0142ava), amending the charges from disclosure of state secrets to espionage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Other instances of persecution\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Committee for the State Security (KGB) included eight more Belarusians in its list of persons &#8220;involved in terrorist activities.&#8221; There are 913 people on the KGB\u2019s \u201cterrorist\u201d list, among them 172 Belarusian nationals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As of September 8, human rights defenders identified at least 1,343 political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 21, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on September 20. Trials A court in Minsk sentenced protestant pastor Via\u010das\u0142a\u016d Han\u010darenka to a fine of 3,200 rubels (over $1,260), presumably for holding an &#8220;unauthorized meeting&#8221; on September 18. Criminal proceedings The closed-door trial of BelaPAN journalists was set to resume on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43826","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>Update on trials, criminal proceedings, politically-motivated persecution | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 21, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on September 20. 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