{"id":87026,"date":"2024-05-24T19:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/87026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"belarusians-hold-picket-in-tbilisi","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/87026\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusians hold picket in Tbilisi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n (Photo courtesy of Raman Ki\u015blak)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

May 24, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarusians have staged a picket in front of Georgia’s migration department in Tbilisi to protest against what they call the long consideration of political asylum applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protest was organized by Maryna Zialonaja, a world champion in Thai boxing, and Raman Ki\u015blak, a human rights activist. They applied for refugee status in Georgia after fleeing Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ki\u015blak told Pozirk<\/em> that his compatriots applied for this status “50 times” in 2019-2024. “During this time, not a single status has been granted to Belarusians: neither refugee status nor humanitarian status,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He mentioned three Belarusian families for whom the legally allowed period of consideration of such applications, 21 months, has expired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The picket lasted more than three hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ki\u015blak and Zialonaja are candidates from different coalitions for the opposition Coordination Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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