{"id":497885,"date":"2025-11-21T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=497885"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:50:50","slug":"maz-produces-special-vans-for-the-interior-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/maz-produces-special-vans-for-the-interior-ministry","title":{"rendered":"MAZ Produces Special Vans for the Interior Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Representatives of the Belarusian Interior Ministry have inspected new models of MAZ special-purpose vehicles, the automaker\u2019s press service reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe vehicles were manufactured within the import-substitution programme in cooperation with the holding\u2019s subsidiary \u2018BELAVTOMAZ\u2019, the MAZ-Kupava Trailer and Body Plant,\u201d<\/em> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the photos, MAZ presented law-enforcement officers with its own version of the infamous vans widely used for detentions during the violent suppression of peaceful protests in recent years. Tens of thousands of Belarusians were subjected to beatings and torture in such vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe ministry\u2019s leadership highly appreciated the technical level of the developed vehicles, noting their compliance with the requirements and technical specifications of the Interior Ministry,\u201d<\/em> the MAZ press service concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was posted on the holding\u2019s official Telegram channel but was later removed for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-497876\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-53.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-53-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-53-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-53-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-53-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-53-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-497877\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-55.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-55-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-55-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-55-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-55-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo_2025-11-21_14-31-55-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of the Belarusian Interior Ministry have inspected new models of MAZ special-purpose vehicles, the automaker\u2019s press service reported. \u201cThe vehicles were manufactured within the import-substitution programme in cooperation with the holding\u2019s subsidiary \u2018BELAVTOMAZ\u2019, the MAZ-Kupava Trailer and Body Plant,\u201d the statement said. Judging by the photos, MAZ presented law-enforcement officers with its own version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":497884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/69207c4e92dd7.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"MAZ Produces Special Vans for the Interior Ministry"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497885","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}