{"id":46961,"date":"2023-05-23T20:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/belarus-bans-social-media-group-of-jailed-opposition-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"belarus-bans-social-media-group-of-jailed-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46961\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus bans social media group of jailed opposition leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 23, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Belarusian courts declared several groups on the Odnoklassniki social network \u201cextremist content\u201d on May 17, according to today\u2019s update of the interior ministry\u2019s online register.<\/p>\n<p> The new entries&nbsp;include the group&nbsp;of Viktar Babaryka, the jailed banker and philanthropist who planned to run against Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka in 2020. His whereabouts&nbsp;and condition have been unknown since April 28.<\/p>\n<p> Other blacklisted groups are <span>\u017dyvie Bie\u0142aru\u015b<\/span>, <span>\u0141uka\u0161enka Go Away<\/span>, Belarusian National Congress and <span>Novy \u010cas<\/span>. The online community of the Center for Belarusian Solidarity, the Telegram channels <span>Dzio\u0144nik Ekstremista<\/span> and Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization, and the YouTube-channel of blogger Ta\u0107ciana Martynava were also outlawed.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say that the Belarusian government suppresses opposition social media because it sees them as a threat to its authoritarian rule and a source of information for the pro-democracy movement, which was empowered by the 2020 post-election protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 23, BPN. Belarusian courts declared several groups on the Odnoklassniki social network \u201cextremist content\u201d on May 17, according to today\u2019s update of the interior ministry\u2019s online register. The new entries&nbsp;include the group&nbsp;of Viktar Babaryka, the jailed banker and philanthropist who planned to run against Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka in 2020. His whereabouts&nbsp;and condition have been unknown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-46961","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>Belarus bans social media group of jailed opposition leader | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 23, BPN. 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