{"id":504403,"date":"2025-12-21T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=504403"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:20:13","slug":"council-of-europe-website-materials-again-declared-extremist-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/council-of-europe-website-materials-again-declared-extremist-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Council of Europe Website Materials Again Declared \u201cExtremist\u201d in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Partizansky District Court of Minsk, which had previously overturned its own ruling, has again declared materials from the Council of Europe website \u201cextremist.\u201d The resource has once more appeared on the updated \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials\u201d maintained by the Ministry of Information.<\/p>\n<p>The new decision was adopted on December 19, 2025. The list includes links to the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations (CINGO), a statement by the CINGO Human Rights Committee in connection with the 2020 protests, and a statement by the CINGO president on human rights violations in Belarus following the forced landing of a Ryanair flight.<\/p>\n<p>The list also includes:<br \/>\nTikTok accounts Disident and \u201cEgor Belarus\u201d;<br \/>\nTelegram channels ASTRA, \u201cMarkiza Karabasa \u2013 Chat,\u201d Blood and Honor, and Truth National Socialism;<br \/>\nthe Telegram group DA VOLI;<br \/>\nOdnoklassniki pages \u201cHramada Palessia,\u201d \u201cYANKA ZMAGAR,\u201d and \u201cValentin Gennadyevich\u201d;<br \/>\nVKontakte pages \u201cPeople\u2019s Embassy of Belarus in Brazil,\u201d \u201cZmagar \u2013 Used Pad,\u201d and \u201cZhyve Belarus\u201d;<br \/>\nthe website and social media accounts of the Swedish International Liberal Centre;<br \/>\nan Instagram community and logo \u201cMINSK BELARUS WORLD NEWS\u201d;<br \/>\nthe VKontakte community \u201cBelarus Top\u201d;<br \/>\nthe Facebook community \u201cNews of Belarus and Minsk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, on December 5 the court declared the website of the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations (CINGO) to be \u201cextremist materials.\u201d At the same time, the court decision cited the Council of Europe website \u2014 www.coe.int. On December 10 the court overturned the ruling. A week and a half later, the decision was reversed again.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism charges to combat opponents and dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Partizansky District Court of Minsk, which had previously overturned its own ruling, has again declared materials from the Council of Europe website \u201cextremist.\u201d The resource has once more appeared on the updated \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials\u201d maintained by the Ministry of Information. The new decision was adopted on December 19, 2025. The list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":504402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69481e42c6a5e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Council of Europe Website Materials Again Declared \u201cExtremist\u201d in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504403","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\/504403","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=504403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}