{"id":537803,"date":"2026-04-29T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537803"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:58:30","slug":"human-rights-activists-report-detentions-in-navapolack-and-other-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/human-rights-activists-report-detentions-in-navapolack-and-other-cities","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Activists Report Detentions in Navapolack and Other Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>At least 12 women were detained in Navapolack on April 23. Arrests were also reported in other cities \u2014 Barysau, Slonim, Brest and Zhodzina, \u201cViciebskaya Viasna\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/vicspring\/5370\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Navapolack, security forces carried out searches, took several people to a pre-trial detention center in Viciebsk, and interrogated the others in Navapolack. Of the 12 detainees, eight were released the same day. One woman was found to be subscribed to \u201cextremist\u201d resources. She was kept in custody for three days and on Monday was fined. As of April 28, two detainees remained behind bars. All the women were required to sign non-disclosure and travel restriction agreements.<\/p>\n<p>According to several sources, the detentions are linked to the designation of a number of cultural initiatives as \u201cextremist formations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three detainees were also reported in Barysau, as well as several in Slonim, Brest and Zhodzina.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported on April 24 that \u201cBelaruskaya Rada Kultury,\u201d the projects \u201cMagistrat,\u201d \u201cOsminog,\u201d \u201cArtPower Belarus,\u201d \u201cFond Soveta po Kultury Belarusi,\u201d and \u201cInshyya\u201d had been designated as \u201cextremist formations\u201d by the KGB, according to a decision <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-council-for-culture-and-several-cultural-initiatives-declared-extremist-formations-in-belarus\">reported earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 women were detained in Navapolack on April 23. Arrests were also reported in other cities \u2014 Barysau, Slonim, Brest and Zhodzina, \u201cViciebskaya Viasna\u201d reported. In Navapolack, security forces carried out searches, took several people to a pre-trial detention center in Viciebsk, and interrogated the others in Navapolack. Of the 12 detainees, eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506659,"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\/69f20e8a0f4ff.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Human Rights Activists Report Detentions in Navapolack and Other Cities"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537803","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}