{"id":45614,"date":"2023-02-04T17:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T14:38:23","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\/45614\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>February 4, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on February 3.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Arrests\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police arrested opposition activist Mika\u0142aj \u010carnavus Jr., son of Mika\u0142aj \u010carnavus, a businessman and public activist from Baranavi\u010dy, Brest region, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. Neighbors saw about a dozen armed policemen arriving at his house in the morning on February 2. \u010carnavus&nbsp;Jr. was taken away in handcuffs after the search. The outcome of his trial which presumably took place on February 3 remains unclear.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t D\u017amitryj Ha\u016drylin, lead singer of the ethnic rock band Ban \u017dvirba, and his wife Viktoryja remain under arrest since January 27, volunteer Illa Mirona\u016d reported. Ha\u016drylin&#8217;s whereabouts are unknown.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police are conducting mass arrests in Fanipal, Minsk region, following the alleged identification of those who participated in a large 2020 protest rally, Viasna said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Student Ja\u016dhien Drazdo\u016d from Babrujsk, Mahilo\u016d region, was arrested after a certain Ihar Kaniu\u0161yk provoked him into talking about politics in a Telegram video chat and then passed the footage to police, <span>Na\u0161a Niva<\/span> reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Criminal proceedings\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A court in Minsk sentenced Darja Hani\u010d, 18, to three months in jail and Kaciaryna Snihirava, to 18 months of restricted freedom in home confinement for tearing down the state flag, Viasna reported.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities also sentenced D\u017amitryj Buben to two years of restricted freedom in home confinement over protests.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A court in the Brest region sentenced designer Dzianis Kaval to 15 months of restricted freedom in home confinement for online comments about policemen, written in late 2020 and early 2021.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Detention conditions\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities transferred Siarhiej Kirejenka to Penal Colony No 2 in Babrujsk, Mahilo\u016d region. Kirejenka, a former IT worker, is currently serving a three-and-a-half-year prison term on charges widely seen as politically-motivated. Earlier, the Committee for State Security Committee (KGB) blacklisted&nbsp;him as a terrorist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Ta\u0107ciana Karpovi\u010d from Viciebsk was transferred to a women&#8217;s colony in Homiel. Authorities convicted her to five years in prison for sharing information with&nbsp;Chernaya Kniga Belarusi (Black Book of Belarus), an online project exposing the identities of security officers who mistreated and brutalized peaceful protesters. Human rights groups consider Karpovi\u010d a political prisoner and authorities, a terrorist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities refused to release from custody Anatol Puha\u010d, 28, because of his Polish residence permit.&nbsp;Police arrested the man in mid-December 2022 upon his return from Poland and accused him of insulting Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka. He came back to Belarus to treat cancer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;Extremism&#8221; updates\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities backlisted <span>Al&#8217;jans rassledovatelej Belarusi<\/span> (Alliance of Belarus\u2019 Investigators) YouTube channel as extremist content, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Belarusian interior ministry blacklisted 18 more people as extremists, including trade union activist Alaksandr Mi\u0161uk and the journalist couple \u015ania\u017eana Inaniec and Alaksandr \u0141y\u010da\u016dka, <span>BPN<\/span> reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As of February 4, human rights defenders identified at least 1,432 political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 4, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on February 3. Arrests Police arrested opposition activist Mika\u0142aj \u010carnavus Jr., son of Mika\u0142aj \u010carnavus, a businessman and public activist from Baranavi\u010dy, Brest region, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. Neighbors saw about a dozen armed policemen arriving at his house in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45614","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 4, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on February 3. 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