{"id":506324,"date":"2025-12-30T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=506324"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:08:23","slug":"lukashenka-signs-decree-granting-pardon-to-22-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-signs-decree-granting-pardon-to-22-people","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Signs Decree Granting Pardon to 22 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> has signed a decree granting pardons to 22 people.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cOf this number, 20 people were convicted of crimes of an extremist nature. Among those pardoned are 15 women and seven men, and 11 of them have underage children,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka\u2019s press service said.<\/p>\n<p>It is noted that all those pardoned submitted relevant petitions and <i>\u201cadmitted guilt and repented of what they had done.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The decision to grant pardons was made <i>\u201con humanitarian grounds and in the interests of families, as well as taking into account positive character references of the pardoned individuals.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that the Belarusian authorities use extremism charges to combat political opponents and dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Lukashenka has signed a decree granting pardons to 22 people. \u201cOf this number, 20 people were convicted of crimes of an extremist nature. Among those pardoned are 15 women and seven men, and 11 of them have underage children,\u201d Lukashenka\u2019s press service said. It is noted that all those pardoned submitted relevant petitions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":506323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6953a49ce8bab.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Signs Decree Granting Pardon to 22 People"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506324","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\/506324","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=506324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}