{"id":47124,"date":"2023-06-05T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T08:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/update-on-arrests-politically-motivated-persecution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"update-on-arrests-politically-motivated-persecution","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47124\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on arrests, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>June 5, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on June 3 and 4 as prominent political prisoners are still held in isolation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Arrested and released\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Police arrested two persons in Lida and Va\u016dkavysk, Hrodna region, for allegedly signing up to the opposition Pieramoha Plan, a pro-government source said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities released Iryna Hara\u0161yna who had served a two-year prison term on charges widely seen as politically motivated, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Extremist list update\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The interior ministry declared followers of the <span>97% Serebryanka<\/span> Telegram channel an extremist group. A district court in Minsk blacklisted the channel&#8217;s content as extremist in July 2021.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Other instances of persecution\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Jailed Andrej Hierasimovi\u010d, currently serving a two-and-a-half-year term at the penal colony in Babrujsk, Mahilo\u016d region, was transferred to the facility\u2019s internal prison after spending two months in a punishment cell, Viasna said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Prominent regime critic Maryja Kale\u015bnikava has been behind bars for 1,000 days. Last November, she was hospitalized in Homiel in a serious condition with a perforated ulcer. She is currently serving an 11-year prison term on charges widely seen as politically motivated. Human rights defenders and her loved ones have not received any news from her for more than three months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Four inspectors from the Viciebsk region&#8217;s department of justice did not find any irregularities at Penal Colony No 1 in Navapo\u0142ack where 94 political prisoners are held, Viasna reported. The colony is notorious among inmates for harsh conditions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As of June 5, human rights defenders identified at least 1,513 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented. Opposition sources estimate their number at around 5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 5, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on June 3 and 4 as prominent political prisoners are still held in isolation. Arrested and released Police arrested two persons in Lida and Va\u016dkavysk, Hrodna region, for allegedly signing up to the opposition Pieramoha Plan, a pro-government source said. Authorities released Iryna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47124","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>Update on arrests, politically-motivated persecution | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 5, BPN. 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