{"id":529015,"date":"2026-03-27T18:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=529015"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:43:29","slug":"homiel-residents-fined-and-arrested-over-hukanne-viasny-celebration-in-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/homiel-residents-fined-and-arrested-over-hukanne-viasny-celebration-in-restaurant","title":{"rendered":"Homiel Residents Fined And Arrested Over \u201cHukanne Viasny\u201d Celebration In Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Several people were detained in Homiel for celebrating \u201cHukanne Viasny,\u201d a traditional Belarusian folk ritual, according to Homiel Viasna.<\/p>\n<p>According to human rights defenders, on March 21 participants gathered for the celebration in a \u0437\u0430\u043a\u0440\u044b\u0442\u043e\u043c courtyard of a restaurant, and the event had been approved by the regional executive committee. Dozens of people took part.<\/p>\n<p>Trials of those detained were held yesterday at a district police department. The cases were heard by judges from courts in different districts, according to a source cited by human rights activists.<\/p>\n<p>Several people received fines of at least 100 basic units (4,500 rubles), while one person was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people were detained in Homiel for celebrating \u201cHukanne Viasny,\u201d a traditional Belarusian folk ritual, according to Homiel Viasna. According to human rights defenders, on March 21 participants gathered for the celebration in a \u0437\u0430\u043a\u0440\u044b\u0442\u043e\u043c courtyard of a restaurant, and the event had been approved by the regional executive committee. Dozens of people took part. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c6b3b45d46c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Homiel Residents Fined And Arrested Over \u201cHukanne Viasny\u201d Celebration In Restaurant"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529015","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=529015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}