{"id":517143,"date":"2026-02-13T13:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=517143"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:12:59","slug":"ukrainian-citizen-released-under-pardon-added-to-extremists-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukrainian-citizen-released-under-pardon-added-to-extremists-list","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Citizen Released Under \u201cPardon\u201d Added To \u201cExtremists List\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs has added 37 more people to the \u201cList of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Among those added is Ukrainian citizen <b>Maria Misiuk<\/b>, a former political prisoner who was released under a \u201cpardon\u201d in November last year together with 30 other Ukrainian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Misiuk, who was a minor at the time, was detained in March 2024. On 29 April 2024, state television aired a propaganda film titled \u201cChildren in the Crosshairs. Recruited by the Enemy\u201d, which reported the detention of seven teenagers for alleged \u201ccooperation with Ukrainian special services\u201d. Some of them were accused of an \u201cact of terrorism\u201d and \u201ctreason\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The film claimed that six teenagers had allegedly formed an \u201canarchist cell Black Nightingales\u201d, which was said to have been created \u201cunder the leadership of the National Liberation Army of Ukraine\u201d by 16-year-old Ukrainian citizen Maria Misiuk. She was sentenced to 13 years in a general-regime penal colony under Article 289 of the Criminal Code \u2014 Act of Terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The list now contains 6,298 names.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism charges to suppress political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs has added 37 more people to the \u201cList of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activities\u201d. Among those added is Ukrainian citizen Maria Misiuk, a former political prisoner who was released under a \u201cpardon\u201d in November last year together with 30 other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":498052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698f074070d20.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukrainian Citizen Released Under \u201cPardon\u201d Added To \u201cExtremists List\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517143","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=517143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}