{"id":47106,"date":"2023-06-02T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/polack-university-lecturer-released-after-serving-jail-term\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"polack-university-lecturer-released-after-serving-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47106\/","title":{"rendered":"Po\u0142ack university lecturer released after serving jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>June 2, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>Authorities have released Alena Chramcova, a lecturer at the Department of World Literature and Foreign Languages at Po\u0142ack State University (PSU), after she had served 10 days in jail.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police arrested her on May 23 during a large raid in Navapo\u0142ack, Viciebsk region, for following an opposition Telegram channel. Authorities also searched her home and confiscated all electronic devices under the pretext that she was a witness in a criminal case.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On the following day, judge Zinaida Ba\u0142abo\u0142ava jailed Chramcova on charges of sharing content that Belarusian authorities deem extremist. Chramcova&#8217;s colleague, Halina \u0160arah\u0142azava, was given the same term on similar charges.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On May 23, police arrested over a dozen PSU staff members, including Siarhiej H\u0142azyryn, an associate professor of public administration, and Viktar \u010cara\u016dko, an associate professor of history. Both were sentenced to 15 days for sharing opposition content.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Two days later, a judge in Po\u0142ack sent Alaksandr \u0160a\u016dco\u016d, the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church&#8217;s priest, to jail for 15 days on similar charges.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The crackdown on university staff came days after police arrested and jailed several doctors from the Navapo\u0142ack City Hospital following a leak about the hospitalization of former presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka. Five of them were punished with administrative arrests.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In late March, another series of arrests targeted local history museum workers. Some of them served jail terms for alleged minor offenses, including subscribing to and sharing content critical of the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2, BPN. 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