{"id":46919,"date":"2023-05-20T00:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/activist-one-third-of-belarusian-judges-involved-in-political-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"activist-one-third-of-belarusian-judges-involved-in-political-cases","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46919\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist: One-third of Belarusian judges involved in political cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 20, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Nearly one-third of Belarusian judges have taken part in politically motivated criminal and administrative cases, a human rights activist said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p> Natalla Sacunkievi\u010d of the Viasna Human Rights Center spoke at an online conference organized by Amnesty International. She said more than 400 judges were involved in such cases, which amounts to almost a third of all judges in general courts.<\/p>\n<p> She said the Belarusian authorities have \u201cevenly spread responsibility for political repression among them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Sacunkievi\u010d also said six lawyers are among the political prisoners in Belarus and more than 60 lawyers have lost their licenses for political reasons in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The Viasna center reported 1,525 political prisoners in Belarus as of last night, a gloomy record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 20, BPN. Nearly one-third of Belarusian judges have taken part in politically motivated criminal and administrative cases, a human rights activist said yesterday. Natalla Sacunkievi\u010d of the Viasna Human Rights Center spoke at an online conference organized by Amnesty International. She said more than 400 judges were involved in such cases, which amounts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-46919","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>Activist: One-third of Belarusian judges involved in political cases | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 20, BPN. 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