{"id":44386,"date":"2022-11-05T22:41:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T19:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/update-on-arrests-trials-politically-motivated-persecution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"update-on-arrests-trials-politically-motivated-persecution","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44386\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>November 5, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on November 4.<\/p>\n<p> Arrests<\/p>\n<p> Law enforcers arrested the wife of designated political prisoner Arciom Ani\u0161\u010duk, Volha, in Minsk, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. No other details have been reported.<\/p>\n<p> Security forces arrested Minsk resident Vasil \u0160a\u0142kievi\u010d for his participation in 2020 protests, pro-government Telegram channels reported.<\/p>\n<p> Police arrested U\u0142adzimir \u0160akun, whose persecution is believed to be politically motivated, in Kruh\u0142aje, Mahilo\u016d region, where he was serving a restricted freedom sentence at&nbsp;an open-type correctional facility, Viasna said.<\/p>\n<p> New criminal cases<\/p>\n<p> The interior ministry said that on November 2, a criminal case was opened against Vadzim Prakopje\u016d, assistant commander of the Belarusian Pahonia unit fighting in Ukraine. He is charged with organizing an extremist group. Similar charges were brought against other persons, including member of the opposition\u2019s transition cabinet Valer Sacha\u0161\u010dyk, it said.<\/p>\n<p> Trials<\/p>\n<p> A judge sentenced Brest resident D\u017amitryj \u0141ahodzi\u010d to three-and-a-half years in&nbsp;the high-profile Zielcer case, Viasna reported.<\/p>\n<p> A judge in Viciebsk sentenced Alaksiej Hryharovi\u010d to a six-month suspended prison sentence for insulting a public officer, Viasna reported. Remarkably, he was involved in suppressing protests in 2020 with interior troops, reports said.<\/p>\n<p> Last October, a district court in Minsk sentenced local residents Zachar Tarazievi\u010d and Alaksiej Vo\u0142ka\u016d to seven-and-a-half and 10 years in prison for setting fire to the car of the State Committee for Forensic Examinations\u2019 chairman, Viasna reported.<\/p>\n<p> Last month, the Brest region\u2019s Baranavi\u010dy City and District Court passed an unusually short sentence in a politically motivated case, Viasna reported. It sentenced local resident Ja\u016dhien \u0160ajbak to one month in jail for desecrating buildings and damaging property. <\/p>\n<p> A judge decided to toughen the punishment for inciting hatred on Hrodna resident \u015aviatas\u0142a\u016d Lepie\u0161a\u016d, Viasna reported. He is waiting to be transferred from an open-type correctional facility to a penal colony. The term is unknown. Human rights activists say his health is deteriorating and he can become blind.<\/p>\n<p>In Minsk, husband and wife D\u017amitryj Sadavy and Hanna Arechava were sentenced to two years of restricted freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility for participating in protests in 2020, Viasna reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 5, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on November 4. Arrests Law enforcers arrested the wife of designated political prisoner Arciom Ani\u0161\u010duk, Volha, in Minsk, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. No other details have been reported. Security forces arrested Minsk resident Vasil \u0160a\u0142kievi\u010d for his participation in 2020 protests, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44386","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 arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 5, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on November 4. 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