{"id":525209,"date":"2026-03-13T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=525209"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:43:27","slug":"69-year-old-minsk-resident-convicted-of-insulting-lukashenka-added-to-extremist-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/69-year-old-minsk-resident-convicted-of-insulting-lukashenka-added-to-extremist-list","title":{"rendered":"69-Year-Old Minsk Resident Convicted of \u201cInsulting Lukashenka\u201d Added to Extremist List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s Interior Ministry has added another 29 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 included are an energy worker from Hrodna, <b>Yauhen Dorakhau<\/b>, and 24 others convicted of \u201cfacilitating extremist activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the human rights center Viasna, the list also includes 69-year-old Minsk resident <b>Volha Tsikhanavetskaya<\/b>, who was convicted of \u201cinsulting Lukashenka.\u201d The woman was sentenced by the Minsk City Court under Part 1 and Part 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (facilitating extremist activity) and Part 1 of Article 368 (insulting Lukashenka). She was likely given a form of restricted freedom, commonly known as \u201chome chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The list now contains 6,402 names.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism-related charges to target political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s Interior Ministry has added another 29 people to the \u201cList of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens or Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activities.\u201d Among those included are an energy worker from Hrodna, Yauhen Dorakhau, and 24 others convicted of \u201cfacilitating extremist activity.\u201d As noted by the human rights center Viasna, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":525208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b3ce3343917.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"69-Year-Old Minsk Resident Convicted of \u201cInsulting Lukashenka\u201d Added to Extremist List"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525209","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}