{"id":536698,"date":"2026-04-26T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=536698"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:35:07","slug":"statkevich-s-facebook-page-declared-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/statkevich-s-facebook-page-declared-extremist","title":{"rendered":"Statkevich\u2019s Facebook Page Declared \u201cExtremist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Information of Belarus has updated the \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials\u201d. Among other entries, it included the Facebook page of politician <strong><b>Mikalai Statkevich<\/b><\/strong>. The corresponding decision was issued on April 23, 2026, by the Leninsky District Court of Hrodna.<\/p>\n<p>The updated list also includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook pages \u201cVitaly Tarasov\u201d, \u201cByMapka\u201d, \u201cBelarusy u Nyamechchyne\/ Belarusians in Deutschland\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>Instagram pages \u201cpahoniaart\u201d, \u201cmiliuk29\u201d, \u201cmalyavko.vladimir\u201d, \u201cBelarus Passport Center\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>TikTok pages \u201cAll Against Putin\u201d, \u201cZemlyanin\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Belarusian authorities regularly use extremism charges to target political opponents and dissent in general.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that Mikalai Statkevich was sentenced in 2021 in the \u201cTsikhanouski case\u201d to 14 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2025, he was among 52 political prisoners who were to be taken to Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>However, he got off the bus and refused to leave Belarus. For several hours, Statkevich remained between two checkpoints. Eventually, he was taken away from the border by masked individuals. For a long time, his whereabouts were unknown. Later, reports emerged that he was being held in a prison in Hlybokaye. Lukashenka publicly confirmed that Statkevich had been returned to prison.<\/p>\n<p>On February 19, he was released again. A month earlier, the political prisoner had suffered a stroke and had impaired speech. At the same time, Statkevich was released without documents. Two weeks ago, he said that his passport had nevertheless been found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information of Belarus has updated the \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials\u201d. Among other entries, it included the Facebook page of politician Mikalai Statkevich. The corresponding decision was issued on April 23, 2026, by the Leninsky District Court of Hrodna. The updated list also includes: Facebook pages \u201cVitaly Tarasov\u201d, \u201cByMapka\u201d, \u201cBelarusy u Nyamechchyne\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533650,"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\/04\/69eebd5388abd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Statkevich\u2019s Facebook Page Declared \u201cExtremist\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536698","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=536698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}