{"id":47171,"date":"2023-06-07T19:51:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/belarusian-activists-recognize-five-more-political-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"belarusian-activists-recognize-five-more-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47171\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian activists recognize five more political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 7, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Belarusian human rights activists have added five convicts in a criminal case of the People\u2019s Self-Defense Units (OGSB), an alleged extremist group, to the list of political prisoners, bringing the total number to 1,492.<\/p>\n<p> The Viasna Human Rights Center and other groups said that the five were sentenced to prison terms of&nbsp;13 to 20 years on charges of illegal actions with weapons, extremism and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p> The activists said the trial was unfair and arguably based on confessions obtained under torture. Previous reports suggest that the only sources of information against the defendants were official statements and a propaganda film on state TV.<\/p>\n<p> The defendants were accused of plotting to blow up a Russian communications center in the Minsk region, destroy logging equipment and murder a TV journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights defenders&nbsp;demanded their release and an end to political reprisals in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p> The newly designated political prisoners are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Natalla Ma\u0107viejeva <\/li>\n<li>\n\tVadzim Hulevi\u010d&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>\n\tKiry\u0142 A\u0161urak <\/li>\n<li>\n\tAlaksiej H\u0142ota\u016d <\/li>\n<li>\n\tD\u017amitryj Sasno\u016dski<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, BPN. Belarusian human rights activists have added five convicts in a criminal case of the People\u2019s Self-Defense Units (OGSB), an alleged extremist group, to the list of political prisoners, bringing the total number to 1,492. The Viasna Human Rights Center and other groups said that the five were sentenced to prison terms of&nbsp;13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47171","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>Belarusian activists recognize five more political prisoners | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 7, BPN. 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