{"id":46744,"date":"2023-05-05T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/rights-group-43-convicted-in-political-criminal-cases-in-april\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"rights-group-43-convicted-in-political-criminal-cases-in-april","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46744\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights group: 43 convicted in political criminal cases in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 5, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The Viasna Human Rights Center has said that the trend towards criminal prosecution and conviction of citizens for political reasons continued in April. <\/p>\n<p> It said in a report that at least 123 people were targeted with&nbsp;32 men and 11 women convicted of crimes.<\/p>\n<p> Viasna highlighted the prosecution of prisoners for defying law enforcers\u2019 orders, describing it as a \u201cvery negative trend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> It also pointed out repeated reprisals against those who had already been oppressed.<\/p>\n<p> Last month, Belarusian courts sentenced 28 people to a total of 89.25 years behind bars; two people to three years in open-type correctional institutions; 13 people to 34 years in home confinement. Two persons were fined&nbsp;a total of 9.250 rubels (some $3,700) as an additional punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Those prosecuted for defamation were mostly accused of libeling the head of state, Viasna said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 5, BPN. The Viasna Human Rights Center has said that the trend towards criminal prosecution and conviction of citizens for political reasons continued in April. It said in a report that at least 123 people were targeted with&nbsp;32 men and 11 women convicted of crimes. Viasna highlighted the prosecution of prisoners for defying law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-46744","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>Rights group: 43 convicted in political criminal cases in April | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 5, BPN. 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