{"id":504513,"date":"2025-12-22T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=504513"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:26:21","slug":"memorial-to-victims-of-repression-desecrated-outside-belarusian-embassy-in-vilnius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/memorial-to-victims-of-repression-desecrated-outside-belarusian-embassy-in-vilnius","title":{"rendered":"Memorial to Victims of Repression Desecrated Outside Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A memorial to victims of repression outside the Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius has been desecrated. This was reported by LRT, citing the Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Sunday between 14:00 and 18:50. An unknown individual smashed the glass in the frames of four photographs installed along the embassy fence. The perpetrator also desecrated the photographs and smashed candle holders with candles.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the memorial has been targeted by acts of vandalism. Several years ago, a pro-Russian activist, <strong>Laurynas Ragelskis<\/strong>, who placed photographs of the deceased into a trash bag, was brought to court over these actions, LRT reports.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Radio Svaboda, the memorial had already been restored by the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorial to victims of repression outside the Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius has been desecrated. This was reported by LRT, citing the Police Department. The incident occurred on Sunday between 14:00 and 18:50. An unknown individual smashed the glass in the frames of four photographs installed along the embassy fence. The perpetrator also desecrated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":504512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69490ec3942d1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Memorial to Victims of Repression Desecrated Outside Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504513","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=504513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}