{"id":44574,"date":"2022-11-21T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T11:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/catholic-priest-jailed-for-15-days-over-social-media-posts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"catholic-priest-jailed-for-15-days-over-social-media-posts","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44574\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic priest jailed for 15 days over social media posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>November 21, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>Authorities jailed Catholic priest Vital \u010cabatar for 15 days presumably for his social media posts, Katolic.life reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police arrested \u010cabatar on November 17. He has served as a priest in Mahilo\u016d for 15 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t This month, authorities also jailed Ihar Kandra\u0107je\u016d, a Greek Catholic priest from Brest, and Ihar Barano\u016dski, editor of the Greek Catholic newspaper Carkva (The Church). The latter was accused of disseminating &#8220;extremist&#8221; content. Both of them have been already released.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Orthodox priest U\u0142adzis\u0142a\u016d Bahamolnika\u016d remains in custody, serving his sixth consecutive jail term.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police arrested him on August 31 after breaking into his Minsk apartment. The charges against him remain unclear. He has been held in a detention center on Akre\u015bcina Street in Minsk. Human rights defenders say the jail does not meet proper hygiene standards and is infested with lice. Prisoners do not have bedding and are not given parcels with food or clean clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 21, BPN. Authorities jailed Catholic priest Vital \u010cabatar for 15 days presumably for his social media posts, Katolic.life reported. Police arrested \u010cabatar on November 17. He has served as a priest in Mahilo\u016d for 15 years. This month, authorities also jailed Ihar Kandra\u0107je\u016d, a Greek Catholic priest from Brest, and Ihar Barano\u016dski, editor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44574","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>Catholic priest jailed for 15 days over social media posts | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 21, BPN. Authorities jailed Catholic priest Vital \u010cabatar for 15 days presumably for his social media posts, Katolic.life reported. 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