{"id":45014,"date":"2022-12-21T20:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/upper-house-passes-bill-to-strip-emigres-of-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"upper-house-passes-bill-to-strip-emigres-of-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45014\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper house passes bill to strip \u00e9migr\u00e9s of citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>December 21, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The Council of the Republic, the upper house of the National Assembly, has approved a bill \u201cOn Citizenship of the Republic of Belarus,\u201d its press service reported.<\/p>\n<p> It would introduce new grounds for annulling citizenship such as \u201ca court sentence that has come into legal force, confirming that a person participates in extremist activities or causes serious harm to Belarus\u2019 interests, when that person is outside Belarus,\u201d the Belarusian parliament said last week.<\/p>\n<p> This way, democratic leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja, former cabinet minister Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka and other prominent democratic figures, whom the authorities deem extremist&nbsp;and prosecute in absentia, may be left without passports.<\/p>\n<p>Article 10 of the Constitution says that no-one can be stripped of citizenship or of the right to change it, adding that termination of citizenship shall be carried out in line with law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 21, BPN. The Council of the Republic, the upper house of the National Assembly, has approved a bill \u201cOn Citizenship of the Republic of Belarus,\u201d its press service reported. It would introduce new grounds for annulling citizenship such as \u201ca court sentence that has come into legal force, confirming that a person participates in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45014","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>Upper house passes bill to strip \u00e9migr\u00e9s of citizenship | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 21, BPN. 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