{"id":539832,"date":"2026-05-06T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=539832"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:21:23","slug":"former-political-prisoners-summoned-for-preventive-conversations-in-homiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/former-political-prisoners-summoned-for-preventive-conversations-in-homiel","title":{"rendered":"Former Political Prisoners Summoned for \u201cPreventive Conversations\u201d in Homiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former political prisoners in Homiel are being summoned to district police departments for \u201cpreventive conversations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/viasnaHomel\/13705\">writes<\/a> Homiel Viasna.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cconversations\u201d are often conducted by people in civilian clothing who do not identify themselves. Former political prisoners are asked about their personal beliefs and private lives: how they voted, how they view the current authorities, whether they hold grudges, whether they receive assistance from abroad, and whether they have relatives living in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cconversations\u201d are often conducted by people in civilian clothing who do not identify themselves. At the end of the meeting, former political prisoners are asked to sign a document confirming that the \u201cpreventive conversation\u201d took place, human rights defenders reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former political prisoners in Homiel are being summoned to district police departments for \u201cpreventive conversations,\u201d writes Homiel Viasna. The \u201cconversations\u201d are often conducted by people in civilian clothing who do not identify themselves. Former political prisoners are asked about their personal beliefs and private lives: how they voted, how they view the current authorities, whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":496412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fc3d7a13204.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Former Political Prisoners Summoned for \u201cPreventive Conversations\u201d in Homiel"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539832","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=539832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}