{"id":53101,"date":"2023-12-04T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=53101"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"police-arrest-dozens-of-trade-unionists-in-viciebsk-region","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/53101\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest dozens of trade unionists in Viciebsk region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 4, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> On December 1, police arrested about 40 people in Polack and Navapo\u0142ack, Viciebsk region, a source who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals has told <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 20 people who have small children were released. Police officers threatened most of the arrested with criminal charges for trade union activities and financing protests, while women were told that social services would take away their children. Many may be fired after the arrest, the source noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrests are reportedly linked to the criminal persecution of Volha Brycikava, head of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union\u2019s branch at the Naftan oil refinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, police arrested Brycikova and Alaksandar Kucharonak, another trade unionist, for allegedly calling for sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brycikava, a long-time Naftan employee, had served several jail terms between 2020 and 2022 for her trade union activities. In 2022, she spent 75 days in jail on charges widely seen as politically motivated, while authorities outlawed all independent trade unions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kucharonak had been working at Naftan for 14 years and was one of the first employees to go on strike after the disputed 2020 presidential election in protest against police violence that followed. A father of three, he has been jailed several times since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 4, Pozirk. On December 1, police arrested about 40 people in Polack and Navapo\u0142ack, Viciebsk region, a source who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals has told Pozirk. Some 20 people who have small children were released. Police officers threatened most of the arrested with criminal charges for trade union activities and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-53101","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>Police arrest dozens of trade unionists in Viciebsk region | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 4, Pozirk. 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