{"id":44345,"date":"2022-11-03T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/defiant-senior-activist-bahinskaja-says-police-sent-her-to-psychiatric-clinic-a-few-times\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"defiant-senior-activist-bahinskaja-says-police-sent-her-to-psychiatric-clinic-a-few-times","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44345\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiant senior activist Bahinskaja says police sent her to psychiatric clinic a few times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>November 3, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Nina Bahinskaja, a prominent 75-year-old opposition activist, told <span>BPN <\/span>that police officers, who detained her during her famous walks with a white-red-white flag in Minsk, took her to a mental hospital for examination several times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Most recently it happened on September 19, when Bahinskaja staged a one-woman picket to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the white-red-white flag becoming a state symbol (it lost that status after the 1995 referendum).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;They called an ambulance and took me to the chief doctor at Navinki [mental health facility in Minsk]. He tells me: &#8216;Nina, don&#8217;t walk around here [in the city]. I will be punished because my doctors do not want to declare you insane. Next time, take the flag and go out for a walk in the woods. Mrs. Bahinskaja, we\u2019re already tired of having to refuse [the authorities],&#8221; she recalled.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Bahinskaja was free to go after that conversation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In October 2020, Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka told officials not to arrest Bahinskaja, saying that he considered her a person with beliefs: if she were \u201cremoved from the squares,\u201d he said, \u201cthere would be no more opposition.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police usually detain Bahinskaja briefly. She has not been jailed in the last two years, although police raided her apartment in November 2020.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Bahinskaja has been active in the opposition movement since 1980s. The German newspaper <span>Berliner Morgenpost <\/span>described her as &#8220;the last Belarusian demonstrator.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 3, BPN. Nina Bahinskaja, a prominent 75-year-old opposition activist, told BPN that police officers, who detained her during her famous walks with a white-red-white flag in Minsk, took her to a mental hospital for examination several times. Most recently it happened on September 19, when Bahinskaja staged a one-woman picket to celebrate the 31st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[29,16],"class_list":["post-44345","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-germanynews","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Defiant senior activist Bahinskaja says police sent her to psychiatric clinic a few times | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 3, BPN. 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