{"id":46691,"date":"2023-05-02T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/viasna-activists-sent-to-penal-colonies\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"viasna-activists-sent-to-penal-colonies","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46691\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasna activists sent to penal colonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 2, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Law enforcers have transferred the jailed leaders of the Viasna Human Rights Center to the Mahilo\u016d region\u2019s penal colonies after they <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bpn-info.online\/news\/politics\/33443\/?sphrase_id=36773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">unsuccessfully<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bpn-info.online\/news\/politics\/33443\/?sphrase_id=36773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bpn-info.online\/news\/politics\/33443\/?sphrase_id=36773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&nbsp;appealed<\/a> their sentences.<\/p>\n<p> Spring96.org reports that Ale\u015b Bialacki, Viasna\u2019s founder and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was sent to Penal&nbsp;Colony No. 9 in Horki; his deputy Valancin Stefanovi\u010d, a vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), to Colony No. 15 in Mahilo\u016d; U\u0142adzimir \u0141abkovi\u010d, coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign, to Colony No. 17 in \u0160k\u0142o\u016d. <\/p>\n<p> Bialacki and his associates had been&nbsp;convicted of&nbsp;financing protests in Belarus and smuggling cash for their human rights work.<\/p>\n<p> Two months ago, a court in Minsk sentenced Bialacki to 10 years in prison. It also gave nine years to Stefanovi\u010d and seven years to \u0141abkovi\u010d. \u0179micier Sa\u0142a\u016djo\u016d, a&nbsp;human rights defender who fled Belarus, was sentenced to eight years <span>in absentia<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The EU, USA and UN Human Rights Office condemned the trial as unfair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2, BPN. Law enforcers have transferred the jailed leaders of the Viasna Human Rights Center to the Mahilo\u016d region\u2019s penal colonies after they unsuccessfully&nbsp;appealed their sentences. Spring96.org reports that Ale\u015b Bialacki, Viasna\u2019s founder and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was sent to Penal&nbsp;Colony No. 9 in Horki; his deputy Valancin Stefanovi\u010d, a vice president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-46691","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>Viasna activists sent to penal colonies | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 2, BPN. 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