{"id":521133,"date":"2026-02-26T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=521133"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:31:56","slug":"those-convicted-under-political-articles-offered-replacement-of-home-chemistry-with-correctional-labour-nasha-niva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/those-convicted-under-political-articles-offered-replacement-of-home-chemistry-with-correctional-labour-nasha-niva","title":{"rendered":"Those Convicted Under Political Articles Offered Replacement of \u201cHome Chemistry\u201d With Correctional Labour \u2014 Nasha Niva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In Belarus, people convicted under political articles and sentenced to so-called \u201chome chemistry\u201d have begun to be offered a replacement of the punishment with a milder one \u2014 correctional labour. <a href=\"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/389103\">According to Nasha Niva<\/a>, at least five such cases are known.<\/p>\n<p>According to the outlet, these cases involve residents of Minsk as well as small district centres. All of them have already been serving their sentences for a long time; some have about a year left to serve, others only a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Correctional labour \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0443\u0441\u043c\u0430\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0430\u0435\u0442 that a person continues working at their main place of employment, while the state withholds between 10% and 25% of their wages. In the cases described in the report, the maximum deduction of 25% was applied.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, some of the existing restrictions are lifted: there is no requirement to observe a strict home stay schedule, and regular police checks are discontinued. Restrictions related to alcohol consumption outside working hours are also eased.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to replace the sentence is made by a court. If the relevant motion is submitted by the police, it is usually approved without difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>For those convicted under non-political articles, this practice is applied regularly. However, in relation to political cases, such a mechanism had effectively not been used before, the authors note.<\/p>\n<p>The exact number of people serving \u201chome chemistry\u201d sentences under political articles is unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Belarus, people convicted under political articles and sentenced to so-called \u201chome chemistry\u201d have begun to be offered a replacement of the punishment with a milder one \u2014 correctional labour. According to Nasha Niva, at least five such cases are known. According to the outlet, these cases involve residents of Minsk as well as small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":496412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69a075818febf.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Those Convicted Under Political Articles Offered Replacement of \u201cHome Chemistry\u201d With Correctional Labour \u2014 Nasha Niva"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521133","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\/521133","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=521133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}