{"id":44849,"date":"2022-12-09T19:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/criminal-case-opened-against-jailed-orthodox-christian-priest\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"criminal-case-opened-against-jailed-orthodox-christian-priest","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44849\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal case opened against jailed Orthodox Christian priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>December 9, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Belarusian investigators have opened a criminal case against jailed Orthodox Christian priest U\u0142adzis\u0142a\u016d Bahamolnika\u016d, the Chry\u015bcijanskaja Vizija advocacy group reports. They suspect him of organization of\/active participation in group actions grossly disturbing public order.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSince August 31, he spent a total of 100 days at Akre\u015bcina [detention center],\u201d the group said. \u201cThe detention conditions were torturous, in an overcrowded cell, without access to medical care, without parcels and correspondence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Bahamolnika\u016d was among those who served a&nbsp;funeral mass for opposition activist Raman Bandarenka, who died while in police custody after being beaten by unknown men in 2020. He also went on a hunger strike in support of blogger Ihar Losik, imprisoned on politically-motivated charges.<\/p>\n<p> Police arrested the 42-year-old priest on August 31 after breaking into his Minsk apartment.<\/p>\n<p>On September 1, Chry\u015bcijanskaja Vizija called upon the Russian Orthodox spiritual leader in Belarus, metropolitan Vienijamin, to do everything possible for the immediate release of Bahamolnika\u016d and for ending the&nbsp;persecution of Orthodox priests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 9, BPN. Belarusian investigators have opened a criminal case against jailed Orthodox Christian priest U\u0142adzis\u0142a\u016d Bahamolnika\u016d, the Chry\u015bcijanskaja Vizija advocacy group reports. They suspect him of organization of\/active participation in group actions grossly disturbing public order. \u201cSince August 31, he spent a total of 100 days at Akre\u015bcina [detention center],\u201d the group said. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44849","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>Criminal case opened against jailed Orthodox Christian priest | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 9, BPN. 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