{"id":524713,"date":"2026-03-11T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=524713"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:58:06","slug":"foreigner-deported-from-belarus-returned-before-entry-ban-expired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/foreigner-deported-from-belarus-returned-before-entry-ban-expired","title":{"rendered":"Foreigner Deported From Belarus Returned Before Entry Ban Expired"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A foreign national who had been expelled from Belarus and banned from entering the country for six months returned before the ban expired, the Minsk prosecutor\u2019s office reported.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2025, a decision was issued to deport the 39-year-old foreigner and prohibit his entry into Belarus for six months. He left the country by plane.<\/p>\n<p>In early January 2026, the man returned to Belarus to visit an acquaintance. He stayed in Minsk and the Minsk region until his presence was discovered by law enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened against him for intentionally staying in Belarus before the expiration of the entry ban (Article 371-2 of the Criminal Code). The article \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0443\u0441\u043c\u0430\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0430\u0435\u0442 a fine or imprisonment for up to one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign national who had been expelled from Belarus and banned from entering the country for six months returned before the ban expired, the Minsk prosecutor\u2019s office reported. In September 2025, a decision was issued to deport the 39-year-old foreigner and prohibit his entry into Belarus for six months. He left the country by plane. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":515108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b166e375ea2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Foreigner Deported From Belarus Returned Before Entry Ban Expired"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524713","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=524713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}