{"id":47751,"date":"2023-07-26T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/update-on-arrests-trials-politically-motivated-persecution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"update-on-arrests-trials-politically-motivated-persecution","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47751\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on arrests, trials, politically-motivated persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>July 26, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on July 25 as authorities keep harassing dissenters and cracking down on online protest communities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Arrested and released\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Alaksiej Barsuko\u016d and Ihar (last name unknown), railroad workers from \u017d\u0142obin, Homiel region, are under arrest, the Homiel branch of the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. Barsuko\u016d has been in custody since June and faces criminal charges for online comments.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities released Alaksiej Horba\u010d who had served a prison term for online comments on the 2021 shootout involving an IT engineer and KGB officers, known as the &#8220;Zielcer case,&#8221; Viasna reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Trials\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A judge in Navapo\u0142ack, Viciebsk region, sentenced Siarhiej Krupkin to 15 days in jail for following and allegedly sharing opposition content, Viasna said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Criminal proceedings\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Minsk City Court sentenced Juryj Adama\u016d to three years in prison on charges of financing extremism, Viasna reported. The co-founder of <span>Pamy\u0142ka<\/span>, a popular science samizdat newsletter, has been under arrest since March for allegedly donating $1,590 to opposition initiatives.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A court in Baranavi\u010dy, Brest region, sentenced Ludmi\u0142a Sialickaja to two years and six months of restricted freedom in home confinement and a fine for several likes on social media, Viasna reported. Authorities accused her of insulting Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and officials.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The sentence against D\u017amitryj S\u0142uka from Babrujsk, Mahilo\u016d region, has come into force, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office said. A judge sentenced him to eight and a half years in prison and a fine of 11,100 rubels (about $3,700) on charges of financing extremism.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A judge in \u017d\u0142obin, Homiel region, sentenced D\u017amitryj Kiba to two years of restricted freedom in an open-type correctional facility for taking part in 2020 protests, Viasna reported. The ruling was made on April 10 but human rights defenders learned about it recently.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Extremist content update\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A Minsk court blacklisted <span>Plan B<\/span>, its logo and social media as extremist content, <span>BPN<\/span> reported. Its founder Volha \u0141ojka, a senior editor at the outlawed news website tut.by, spent nearly a year in prison in Belarus on politically-motivated charges.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Earlier this month, authorities also blacklisted the Instagram page of <span>Novy \u010cas<\/span> and several opposition Telegram channels, among them an association of political prisoners&#8217; relatives, Belarusians in Vilnius, and a blog about the Belarusian language.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Other instances of persecution\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Ja\u016dhien Prapolski, currently serving an eight-year-prison term for running opposition Telegram chats, was given additional 18 months in prison for allegedly disobeying prison authorities, Viasna said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Retired math teacher Valancin Fiedarenka was transferred from the Homiel pre-trial detention center to a penal colony, the Homiel branch of Viasna reported. Authorities sentenced him to for sending 160 sms messages about movements of Russian military equipment to <span>Belsat TV, <\/span>a Warsaw-based channel deemed extremist in Belarus.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As of July 26, human rights defenders identified at least 1,482 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented. Opposition sources estimate the number of political prisoners at around 5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, BPN. New cases of politically-motivated persecution were documented in Belarus on July 25 as authorities keep harassing dissenters and cracking down on online protest communities. Arrested and released Alaksiej Barsuko\u016d and Ihar (last name unknown), railroad workers from \u017d\u0142obin, Homiel region, are under arrest, the Homiel branch of the Viasna Human Rights Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47751","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, trials, politically-motivated persecution | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 26, BPN. 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