{"id":499347,"date":"2025-11-30T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499347"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:16:15","slug":"minsk-scientist-convicted-in-homiel-for-extremism-and-insulting-lukashenka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/minsk-scientist-convicted-in-homiel-for-extremism-and-insulting-lukashenka","title":{"rendered":"Minsk Scientist Convicted in Homiel for \u201cExtremism\u201d and \u201cInsulting Lukashenka\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Homiel Regional Court has delivered a verdict against 32-year-old Minsk resident <b>Alyaksandr Rusakovich<\/b>, who was charged under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (facilitating extremist activity) and Part 1 of Article 368 (insulting <b>Lukashenka<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p>The exact sentence remains unknown. However, according to the publication \u201cHomielskaya Viasna,\u201d the court did not impose imprisonment. It is presumed that Rusakovich received a non-custodial restriction of freedom (\u201chome chemistry\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The substance of the charges is being clarified. There is a possibility that the case is linked to the investigation involving the monitoring channel Belaruski Hajun, the outlet reports.<\/p>\n<p>Alyaksandr Rusakovich is a PhD in Economics and an associate professor. He previously worked at the Institute of System Research in the Agro-Industrial Complex of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and taught at the Belarusian State Technological University.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing took place in Homiel because, according to human rights groups, several Minsk court cases have been transferred to the regions due to workload.<\/p>\n<p>Belaruski Hajun is an OSINT monitoring project tracking military activity of Russian and Belarusian forces. The monitoring group was created shortly before the Russian-Ukrainian war by activist <b>Anton Matolka<\/b>. In early February 2025, security forces gained access to the project\u2019s bot chat. Following this, the project announced that it would cease operations.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights centre Viasna reports that at least 124 individuals have been detained as part of the \u201cHajun case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Homiel Regional Court has delivered a verdict against 32-year-old Minsk resident Alyaksandr Rusakovich, who was charged under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (facilitating extremist activity) and Part 1 of Article 368 (insulting Lukashenka). The exact sentence remains unknown. However, according to the publication \u201cHomielskaya Viasna,\u201d the court did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/692c5fc62d993.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Minsk Scientist Convicted in Homiel for \u201cExtremism\u201d and \u201cInsulting Lukashenka\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499347","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\/499347","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=499347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}