{"id":86616,"date":"2024-05-22T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/86616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"border-guards-arrest-two-regime-critics-at-lithuania-border","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/86616\/","title":{"rendered":"Border guards claim to have thwarted opponent evacuation attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zaderzhannye_na_granitse_GPK_skrin_Vesna.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zaderzhannye_na_granitse_GPK_skrin_Vesna.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zaderzhannye_na_granitse_GPK_skrin_Vesna-354x234.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zaderzhannye_na_granitse_GPK_skrin_Vesna-734x484.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zaderzhannye_na_granitse_GPK_skrin_Vesna-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zaderzhannye_na_granitse_GPK_skrin_Vesna-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n      <div class=\"block-image__descr\">\n\n        Still from State Border Committee&#039;s video\n    <\/div>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Viasna)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 22, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Border guards arrested two men yesterday at the border with Lithuania as part of Belarus&#8217; crackdown on the opposition, according to the State Border Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of them was wanted by police for posting comments to an opposition Telegram channel to express  approval of the killing of a Committee for State Security (KGB) agent in a shootout in 2021. The detainee planned to flee to Lithuania to avoid criminal prosecution in Belarus, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second detainee was allegedly the driver in what appeared to be a plan to evacuate the dissident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Foreign-based Belarusians asked him to deliver the wanted person directly to the state border and promised a hefty remuneration for the job,&#8221; the agency claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mazejka-744-2-16.12.2023-300x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mazejka-744-2-16.12.2023-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mazejka-744-2-16.12.2023.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Journalist Ma\u017eejka released from prison \u2013 \u00a0rights group<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">December 16, Pozirk. Authorities have released journalist Hienad\u017a Ma\u017eejka from prison, said the Viasna Human Rights Center. Ma\u017eejka was arrested in early October 2021 over his interview with a classmate of IT professional Andrej Zielcer who died in a shootout &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/55960\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On September 28, 2021, the KGB reported the death of its officer D\u017amitryj Fiedasiuk, who was fatally wounded in a raid on a suspicious apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alleged shooter of the officer, IT professional Andrej Zielcer, was killed on the spot. His wife was arrested while filming the shootout on a smartphone and later placed in a psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident caused a public outcry, with many sympathizing with the Zielcers and denouncing KGB brutality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 22, Pozirk. Border guards arrested two men yesterday at the border with Lithuania as part of Belarus&#8217; crackdown on the opposition, according to the State Border Committee. 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