{"id":47017,"date":"2023-05-26T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/greek-catholic-priest-jailed-in-polack-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"greek-catholic-priest-jailed-in-polack-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47017\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Catholic priest jailed in Po\u0142ack crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 26, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> A court has sentenced a Greek Catholic priest to 15 days in jail for sharing articles from the <span>Charter&#8217;97<\/span> website on social media, a source has told <span>BPN<\/span>. The Belarusian government declared the opposition website an extremist group.<\/p>\n<p> Police in Navapo\u0142ack, Viciebsk region, arrested Alaksandr \u0160a\u016dco\u016d yesterday. They also detained 76-year-old Halina Zacharkina, associate professor at Po\u0142ack State University\u2019s architecture and design department. She was fined 2,960 rubels ($1,200) for unauthorized protesting and extremist propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that reprisals in the Po\u0142ack area intensified this spring and involved citizens linked to Po\u0142ack\u2019s history and culture museum, Navapo\u0142ack Central City Hospital and academics. Over dozen university staff were arrested earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 26, BPN. A court has sentenced a Greek Catholic priest to 15 days in jail for sharing articles from the Charter&#8217;97 website on social media, a source has told BPN. The Belarusian government declared the opposition website an extremist group. Police in Navapo\u0142ack, Viciebsk region, arrested Alaksandr \u0160a\u016dco\u016d yesterday. They also detained 76-year-old Halina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47017","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>Greek Catholic priest jailed in Po\u0142ack crackdown | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 26, BPN. 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