{"id":90735,"date":"2024-06-14T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/90735\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"interior-ministry-adds-exiled-politician-kraucou-19-others-to-its-extremist-list","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/90735\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior ministry adds exiled politician Kra\u016dco\u016d, 19 others to its extremist list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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June 14, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The interior ministry has added 20 more names to the list of “persons involved in extremist activities,” taking the total of entries to 4,154, its website says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exiled politician Ivan Kra\u016dco\u016d is on the wanted list, three others are serving prison terms and 16 have criminal records and may be serving non-custodial sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-May, authorities sentenced Kra\u016dco\u016d, an ally of former presidential candidate Viktar Babaryka, to 11 years in prison without the defendant being present. The judge found him guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government, forming an extremist group and inciting hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five women and presumably one couple, Alaksiej Vieraicin and his wife Inha, feature among the new additions to the extremist register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaksandar Vierasovi\u010d was given six years in prison on charges of financing extremism in connection with donations to opposition solidarity groups and participating in a military conflict abroad. He may be serving a non-custodial sentence. Rights groups consider him a political prisoner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People placed on the list of individuals involved in extremist activities are prohibited from engaging in education activity, publishing, as well as from holding state positions and from doing military service, for five years after completing their sentences or criminal record annulment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their financial transactions are subject to special monitoring. They are also banned from activities involving narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, arms and ammunition and explosives, for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities in Belarus have equated criticism, solidarity, advocacy, free media and free expression to extremism and terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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