{"id":496413,"date":"2025-11-13T16:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=496413"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:06:47","slug":"belarusian-media-outlet-plan-b-declared-an-extremist-group-by-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-media-outlet-plan-b-declared-an-extremist-group-by-authorities","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Media Outlet &#8220;Plan B&#8221; Declared an &#8220;Extremist Group&#8221; by Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs has designated the outlet &#8220;Plan B,&#8221; including its social media and Telegram channel, as an &#8220;extremist group.&#8221; The decision by the State Security Committee (KGB) dated November 5, 2025, No. 4\/41-53, titled &#8220;On Recognising a Group of Citizens as an Extremist Formation and Banning Its Activities,&#8221; was adopted on November 5.<\/p>\n<p>According to the record, the &#8220;extremist group&#8221; includes <strong>Volha Loyka<\/strong> (born December 13, 1978), <b>Andrei Makhouski<\/b> (born June 9, 1973), and <strong>Dzmitry Smirnou<\/strong>\u00a0(born November 1, 1982).<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;A group of citizens among the founders and participants of the &#8216;Plan B&#8217; initiative is engaged in extremist activities,&#8221;<\/i> the &#8220;reference information&#8221; states.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian law enforcement agencies routinely use extremism charges to target political opponents and suppress dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs has designated the outlet &#8220;Plan B,&#8221; including its social media and Telegram channel, as an &#8220;extremist group.&#8221; The decision by the State Security Committee (KGB) dated November 5, 2025, No. 4\/41-53, titled &#8220;On Recognising a Group of Citizens as an Extremist Formation and Banning Its Activities,&#8221; was adopted on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6916021d51fcd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Media Outlet &#171;Plan B&#187; Declared an &#171;Extremist Group&#187; by Authorities"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}