{"id":45584,"date":"2023-02-02T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T10:34:53","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\/45584\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>February 2, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on February 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Several arrested, one released\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police arrested Andrej Mamo\u0144ka and his wife Viera on charges of participating in protests, Chry\u015bcijanskaja Vizija reported. Mamo\u0144ka is an IT specialist and one of the leaders of a protestant church community.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police also arrested four employees of Homieltransnafta Druzhba presumably over accessing opposition websites from their work computers, <span>Flagshtok<\/span> reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities released Maksim Siluk after he had served his sentence of two and a half years in prison his role in 2020 protests in Brest, the Brest branch of the Viasna Human Rights Center said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Criminal proceedings\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A court in Babrujsk sentenced Anatol Ciepciko\u016d to two years in prison on charges of insulting Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka, Viasna reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A court in the Hrodna region sentenced Alaksiej Jara\u0161evi\u010d to two years of restricted freedom in an open-type correctional facility for an online comment about \u0141uka\u0161enka, Viasna said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A court in the Brest region heard a new case against Aleh Ni\u010dyporka, currently serving a three-year prison term. It found him guilty of damaging property and theft and added six more months to his sentence. Human rights groups consider Ni\u010dyporka a political prisoner, Viasna reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A new trial of jailed activist U\u0142adzimir Hundar began in Hrodna. Authorities charged him with insulting a prosecutor. Hundar is currently serving an 18-year prison term on charges widely seen as politically-motivated, according to Viasna.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Jailed former presidential hopeful Siarhiej Cichano\u016dski, currently serving an 18-year prison term, will go on a new trial on February 14 on charges of malicious disobedience to the prison authorities, Viasna said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Other instances of persecution\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Anatol \u0141atu\u0161ka, a cousin of prominent regime critic Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka, was transferred to Penal Colony No 1 in Navapo\u0142ack, Viciebsk region. In September 2022, authorities sentenced him to six years in prison after finding him guilty of taking part in protests, hooliganism and abuse of state symbols.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Mahilo\u016d Regional Court will hear an appeal by Ivan Zia\u0144ko, a man imprisoned on politically motivated charges, on February 9. In November 2022, a judge added a year to his five-year prison sentence for allegedly disobeying prison authorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Pro-government Telegram channels have published a video of a forced confession obtained from Alaksandr Pia\u010dko from Lida, Hrodna region, under duress. In the video, the man promises to remove his Pahonia coat of arms tattoo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Extremist list updates\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities blacklisted a local Telegram channel and chat from Rada\u0161kovi\u010dy, Minsk region, as well as Kropka&#8217;s Facebook page as extremist content, Viasna said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Terrorist list updates\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Committee for State Security (KGB) added seven more people to its list of individuals and entities involved in terrorist activities, including those whom human rights groups consider political prisoners, <span>BPN <\/span>reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As of February 2, human rights defenders identified at least 1,435 political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on February 1. Several arrested, one released Police arrested Andrej Mamo\u0144ka and his wife Viera on charges of participating in protests, Chry\u015bcijanskaja Vizija reported. Mamo\u0144ka is an IT specialist and one of the leaders of a protestant church community. Police also arrested four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45584","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=\"February 2, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on February 1. 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