{"id":500755,"date":"2025-12-08T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=500755"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:35:57","slug":"eighteen-year-old-mahilyow-resident-charged-with-denying-the-genocide-of-the-belarusian-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/eighteen-year-old-mahilyow-resident-charged-with-denying-the-genocide-of-the-belarusian-people","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen-Year-Old Mahilyow Resident Charged With Denying The Genocide Of The Belarusian People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Prosecutors have authorised the pre-trial detention of an 18-year-old resident of Mahilyow. He is accused of denying the genocide of the Belarusian people (part 1, article 130-2 of the Criminal Code).<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;According to case materials, the accused in September 2024, acting as an administrator in a public Telegram chat, posted a comment in which he denied well-known historical facts \u2014 in particular, the systematic extermination of the population of the BSSR by Nazi German occupiers and their collaborators during the Second World War, as well as the very existence of Nazi Germany\u2019s Generalplan Ost.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other details of the case were not provided. However, in a video released by the Prosecutor\u2019s Office, a questioning of the young man is shown from behind together with an escorting officer.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIt was about the Ost plan,\u201d<\/i> the young man says.<br \/>\n<i>\u201cWhat was the comment?\u201d<\/i> the prosecutor asks.<br \/>\n<i>\u201cThat all of it was a falsification by the Soviet Union,\u201d<\/i> he replies.<br \/>\n<i>\u201cAnd do you yourself really believe that?\u201d<\/i> the prosecutor continues.<br \/>\n<i>\u201cI believed that until the moment I was detained. I sincerely regret it,\u201d<\/i> the detainee says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors have authorised the pre-trial detention of an 18-year-old resident of Mahilyow. He is accused of denying the genocide of the Belarusian people (part 1, article 130-2 of the Criminal Code). &#8220;According to case materials, the accused in September 2024, acting as an administrator in a public Telegram chat, posted a comment in which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":500754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6936b822e79b7.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Eighteen-Year-Old Mahilyow Resident Charged With Denying The Genocide Of The Belarusian People"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500755","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=500755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}