{"id":45293,"date":"2023-01-12T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/update-on-trials-and-politically-motivated-persecution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"update-on-trials-and-politically-motivated-persecution","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45293\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on trials and politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>January 12, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on January 11.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Criminal proceedings\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Minsk City Court sentenced Ta\u0107ciana Ko\u0142as, a former municipal employee, to six and a half years in prison, pro-government sources said. Authorities said she shared information with <span>Chernaya Kniga Belarusi<\/span> (Eng.: Black Book of Belarus), an online project exposing the identities of security officers who mistreated and brutalized peaceful protesters. Authorities also blacklisted her as a terrorist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Prosecutors requested a four-year prison term for Juryj Ka\u015bciuk, currently on trial in Brest on charges of promoting extremism, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. Ka\u015bciuk allegedly helped political prisoners to contact BySol and By_help initiatives and receive cash payments while serving his first politically-motivated sentence at an open-type correctional facility in 2021. A verdict in his new case is scheduled for January 13.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Extremist list updates\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities blacklisted several local Telegram channels and chats, including <span>BelPoznan Naviny + Va\u017enaje<\/span> and <span>Fanipol Baj. Obsuzhdeniya<\/span>, as extremist content, Viasna said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Other instances of persecution\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Yekaterina Yanshina, a Russian journalist linked to the Memorial human rights organization, currently serving a 15-day jail term in Minsk, was not allowed to see her lawyer, Memorial&#8217;s Telegram channel said. There has been no news from her for six days. Police arrested her for covering the trial of Viasna&#8217;s leaders and taking pictures in the courtroom.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Investigative journalist Dzianis Iva\u0161yn fell ill while being in a punishment cell and was transferred to the prison&#8217;s &#8220;quarantine&#8221; ward, a Telegram channel of his followers said. Iva\u0161yn is currently serving a 13-year prison term. His persecution is widely seen as politically motivated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Russian social network VKontakte blocked access to a number of pages deemed extremist in Belarus, including the independent media outlets&nbsp;<span>Zerkalo<\/span>, <span>Mediazona<\/span> and <span>Belsat TV<\/span>, as well as Viasna, <span>BPN<\/span> reported.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities dropped new charges against Minsk resident Raman Kor\u017eyk, sentenced to one year of restricted freedom in home confinement, after the statute of limitations had expired, Viasna said. Authorities intended to charge him with insulting six policemen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As of January 12, human rights defenders identified at least 1,440 political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 12, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on January 11. Criminal proceedings The Minsk City Court sentenced Ta\u0107ciana Ko\u0142as, a former municipal employee, to six and a half years in prison, pro-government sources said. Authorities said she shared information with Chernaya Kniga Belarusi (Eng.: Black Book of Belarus), an online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45293","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 trials and politically-motivated persecution | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 12, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on January 11. 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