{"id":514562,"date":"2026-02-03T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=514562"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:09:48","slug":"at-least-175-people-detained-in-hajun-case-rights-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/at-least-175-people-detained-in-hajun-case-rights-defenders","title":{"rendered":"At Least 175 People Detained in \u201cHajun Case\u201d \u2014 Rights Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>At least 175 people are being held in custody in the \u201cHajun case,\u201d the Viasna Human Rights Center reports. These are only confirmed defendants; in reality, the number of detainees is much higher.<\/p>\n<p>It is known that a number of people have been detained since the beginning of the year. Court hearings in the \u201cHajun case\u201d are taking place almost every day. Since the start of the year, 69 people convicted of \u201caiding extremism\u201d have been added to the Interior Ministry\u2019s \u201cextremists list.\u201d Most of them were prosecuted in the \u201cHajun case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to human rights defenders, defendants are mostly sentenced to so-called \u201chome chemistry,\u201d but there are cases in which people have been sentenced to imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian Hajun is a monitoring OSINT project tracking the military activity of Russian and Belarusian forces. The monitoring group was created ahead of the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war by activist <b>Anton Matolka<\/b>. In early February 2025, security forces gained access to a chat with the project\u2019s bot. After that, the project announced it was ceasing operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 175 people are being held in custody in the \u201cHajun case,\u201d the Viasna Human Rights Center reports. These are only confirmed defendants; in reality, the number of detainees is much higher. It is known that a number of people have been detained since the beginning of the year. Court hearings in the \u201cHajun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":495980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698201b31181e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"At Least 175 People Detained in \u201cHajun Case\u201d \u2014 Rights Defenders"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514562","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\/514562","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=514562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}