{"id":66723,"date":"2024-02-13T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T09:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=66723"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"opposition-leader-concerned-about-political-prisoners-fate","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/66723\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition leader concerned about prisoners held incommunicado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u0442\u044e\u0440\u044c\u043c\u0430-\u0441\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0446\u0435-\u043f\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0439-e1700140578746.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(pixabay.com)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 12, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Alaksanadr \u0141uka\u0161enka and his officials keep political prisoners incommunicado to make people forget about them, \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja said on Telegram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prominent opposition politicians and activists remain cut off from the world for months, among them Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s husband Siarhiej Cichano\u016dski (341 days incommunicado), former presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka (292), his campaign manager Maryja Kale\u015bnikava (363), lawyer Maksim Znak (369), blogger Ihar \u0141osik (358) and politician Mika\u0142aj Statkievi\u010d (369).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many others may face the same ordeal, but people just do not know about their suffering, the Belarusian opposition leader noted. Politicians, media outlets and activists seek to restore communication with people behind bars, she stressed, urging Belarusians to support political prisoners and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities want to break political prisoners&#8217; will by torturing them with a ban on correspondence and communication with the outside world, the Viasna Human Rights Center noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human Rights Watch recently recorded a growing number of reports of incommunicado detention, torture and other forms of ill-treatment in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 12, Pozirk. Alaksanadr \u0141uka\u0161enka and his officials keep political prisoners incommunicado to make people forget about them, \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja said on Telegram. Prominent opposition politicians and activists remain cut off from the world for months, among them Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s husband Siarhiej Cichano\u016dski (341 days incommunicado), former presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka (292), his campaign manager Maryja [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49661,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-66723","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","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>Opposition leader concerned about prisoners held incommunicado | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 12, Pozirk. 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