{"id":499685,"date":"2025-12-02T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499685"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:54:03","slug":"homel-couple-sentenced-for-facilitating-extremist-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/homel-couple-sentenced-for-facilitating-extremist-activities","title":{"rendered":"Homel Couple Sentenced for \u201cFacilitating Extremist Activities\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>At the end of November, the Homel Regional Court delivered a verdict against spouses <b>Stanislau Machalau<\/b> and <b>Sviatlana Yakubovich<\/b> under Part 2 of Article 361-4 (\u201cPropaganda of Extremist Activities Committed Repeatedly or by a Group of Persons\u201d) of the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Viasna Human Rights Centre, Machalau was sentenced to four years in a high-security prison colony, while Yakubovich received five years in a general-security colony.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were detained at the end of October 2024. They married in prison during Machalau\u2019s first imprisonment in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2021, he was sentenced to three years in a prison colony, including for participating in protests. He was released in December 2023, but was detained again a year later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of November, the Homel Regional Court delivered a verdict against spouses Stanislau Machalau and Sviatlana Yakubovich under Part 2 of Article 361-4 (\u201cPropaganda of Extremist Activities Committed Repeatedly or by a Group of Persons\u201d) of the Criminal Code. According to the Viasna Human Rights Centre, Machalau was sentenced to four years in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":499683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692ec5509c730.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Homel Couple Sentenced for \u201cFacilitating Extremist Activities\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499685","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=499685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}