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The Ministry of Internal Affairs has added another 12 people to the “List of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens, or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activity.”
As noted by the Viasna Human Rights Center, 11 of them were convicted of “facilitating extremist activity.”
The list now contains 6,226 names.
Belarusian authorities regularly use accusations of extremism to combat political opponents and dissent in general.