{"id":74697,"date":"2024-03-22T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/74697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"police-cracking-down-against-malady-front-reports","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/74697\/","title":{"rendered":"Police cracking down on Ma\u0142ady Front \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/urbanovichi_MF.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/urbanovichi_MF.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/urbanovichi_MF-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/urbanovichi_MF-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/urbanovichi_MF-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/urbanovichi_MF-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n      <div class=\"block-image__descr\">\n\n        Dzianis Urbanovi\u010d (left) with his brothers\r\n\r\n\n    <\/div>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Ma\u0142ady Front)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 22, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Over the past four days, police have arrested at least 18 members of the Ma\u0142ady Front opposition youth organization, including four women, the activists said on Telegram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four persons were reportedly arrested in \u0141ahojsk, Minsk region, late on March 21 and in the early morning on March 22, including Mikita Paciomkin and Ihar Urbanovi\u010d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Law enforcers also arrested the whole family of the organization&#8217;s leader Dzianis Urbanovi\u010d: his brothers Maksim and Arciom, father Iosif and sister Maryla, according to Ma\u0142ady Front. Other reports say that only one of Urbanovi\u010d&#8217;s brothers, Maksim, was arrested and severely beaten by the Committee for State Security agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dzianis Urbanovi\u010d has been heading Ma\u0142ady Front since 2018. Belarusian authorities persecuted him over participation in 2020 postelection protests. In late 2021, he fled to Ukraine where he later joined the Belarusian volunteers from the Kastu\u015b Kalino\u016dski Regiment to fight Russia. He was wounded in combat in January 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 1997, Ma\u0142ady Front promoted patriotism among the Belarusian youth. In August 2022, authorities branded it an \u201cextremist\u201d group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22, Pozirk. Over the past four days, police have arrested at least 18 members of the Ma\u0142ady Front opposition youth organization, including four women, the activists said on Telegram. Four persons were reportedly arrested in \u0141ahojsk, Minsk region, late on March 21 and in the early morning on March 22, including Mikita Paciomkin and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":74678,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-74697","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police cracking down on Ma\u0142ady Front \u2013 reports | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 22, Pozirk. 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