{"id":199105,"date":"2026-08-07T17:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/199105\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:52:23","slug":"interior-ministry-brands-four-people-extremists","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/199105\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior ministry brands four people \u201cextremists\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 7, <\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>Pozirk<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong>Belarus\u2019 interior ministry has added four names to its list of people it considers \u201cinvolved in extremist activities,\u201d taking the total to 6,815 entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the recently added individuals, Maksim Dziam\u010duk, is&nbsp;serving a&nbsp;prison sentence for taking part in \u201cmass riots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interior ministry says the sentences of the three other designated individuals have not been completed, which means that they may be serving non-custodial terms. They are Andrej Cyhanko\u016d and Valancin \u0141azo\u016dski, both convicted of insulting Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, and Vasil Kra\u016d\u010duk, convicted of insulting a government official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only Kra\u016d\u010duk is a recognized political prisoner, while the cases of the other three men have never been reported before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their sentences remain unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People placed on the list of individuals involved in \u201cextremist\u201d activities are banned from any education- and publishing-related activity, as well as from holding state positions and from doing military service, for five years after completing their sentences or after the related conviction is deleted from the criminal record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their financial transactions are subject to close monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the crackdown on the 2020 post-election protests, authorities in Belarus equated criticism, solidarity, advocacy, the free media and free expression with extremism and terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 7, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 interior ministry has added four names to its list of people it considers \u201cinvolved in extremist activities,\u201d taking the total to 6,815 entries. One of the recently added individuals, Maksim Dziam\u010duk, is&nbsp;serving a&nbsp;prison sentence for taking part in \u201cmass riots.\u201d The interior ministry says the sentences of the three other designated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-199105","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>Interior ministry brands four people \u201cextremists\u201d | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 7, Pozirk. 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