{"id":46375,"date":"2023-04-05T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T08:17:19","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\/46375\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>April 5, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on April 4.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Arrested and released\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Minsk police arrested university lecturer Aksana U\u0142anovi\u010d for allegedly contacting an opposition Telegram chatbot, <span>Na\u0161a Niva<\/span> reported.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The agents of the Committee for State Security (KGB) arrested a group of first-year students of the Branavi\u010dy State University in the Brest region, a Telegram channel monitoring politically-motivated persecution in Hrodna and the Hrodna region said. Authorities did not disclose the charges against students but the arrest is linked to their comments about Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s &#8220;open lecture&#8221; on September 1, 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities released An\u017ealika Borys (And\u017celika Borys), the leader of the unofficial Union of Poles in Belarus, from house arrest and dropped the criminal charge&nbsp;of inciting hatred &#8220;due to the lack of evidence,&#8221;&nbsp;Belsat&nbsp;reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t New criminal cases\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities filed criminal charges over protests against those arrested during a large police raid in Dziar\u017eysnk, Minsk region, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. They did not disclose the names of the arrested.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Criminal proceedings\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A court in Mahilo\u016d sentenced U\u0142adzis\u0142a\u016d Papo\u016d, 20, to two years in prison for sharing pictures and videos of a military airfield in Babrujsk and Russian military equipment with an opposition Telegram channel, Viasna reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t \u015aviat\u0142ana By\u010dko\u016dskaja, a former public official, will go on trial at the Minsk City Court on April 20. Authorities accuse her of sharing 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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In October 2022, authorities sentenced Volha Sa\u0142amienik and U\u0142adzimir Tryfana\u016d to seven and a half and 14 years in prison, respectively, on charges of high treason and illegal actions with firearms. No other details of the case are known as the trial was held behind closed doors. Both defendants may be linked to the case of former KGB officer Alaksiej Chra\u0142ovi\u010d, who leaked data to opposition channels in 2020 and was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Other instances of persecution\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Partyzanski District Court of Minsk will hear the complaint against the arrest of journalist Pavie\u0142 Padabied on April 5, the court&#8217;s schedule says. He has been in custody since January 20 and faces criminal charges of promoting extremism.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Extremist content updates\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities blacklisted several opposition social media pages, local Telegram channels from S\u0142onim, Hrodna region, Barysa\u016d, Minsk region, as well as a music video by Sumarok band and the personal page of journalist Zoja Chruckaja on VKontakte.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As of April 5, human rights defenders identified at least 1,471 political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on April 4. Arrested and released Minsk police arrested university lecturer Aksana U\u0142anovi\u010d for allegedly contacting an opposition Telegram chatbot, Na\u0161a Niva reported.&nbsp; The agents of the Committee for State Security (KGB) arrested a group of first-year students of the Branavi\u010dy State University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-46375","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=\"April 5, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on April 4. 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