{"id":540118,"date":"2026-05-07T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=540118"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:32:45","slug":"searches-of-relatives-of-coordination-council-candidates-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/searches-of-relatives-of-coordination-council-candidates-continue","title":{"rendered":"Searches Of Relatives Of Coordination Council Candidates Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Coordination Council <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rada_vision\/4719\">reports<\/a> that searches and interrogations were carried out this morning at the homes of relatives of several candidates from the \u201cEuropean Choice\u201d list.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Viasna Human Rights Centre was aware of <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/viasna-aware-of-more-than-10-searches-conducted-at-relatives-of-coordination-council-candidates\">more than 10 searches<\/a> involving candidates from several factions running for the Coordination Council for the first time. They were conducted as part of a case opened under articles related to participation in an extremist formation, treason, conspiracy to seize power and calls for sanctions. In some cases, relatives were pressured in an attempt to force their family members to withdraw from electoral lists ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Elections to the Coordination Council will take place from May 11 to 17.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the KGB designated the following electoral lists as \u201cextremist formations\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cYour Voice\u201d,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNastup\u201d,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEnough to Be Afraid\u201d \/ \u201cKhvatit Boyatsya\u201d,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUnited Civic Platform\u201d and\/or \u201cObyedinyonnaya Grazhdanskaya Platforma\u201d,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRukh Volya\u201d,<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBloc of Belarusian Political Prisoners \u2018Belarusi Dziyannya\u2019\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It should be noted that the KGB had also designated electoral lists in the 2024 Coordination Council elections as \u201cextremist formations\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coordination Council reports that searches and interrogations were carried out this morning at the homes of relatives of several candidates from the \u201cEuropean Choice\u201d list. Earlier, the Viasna Human Rights Centre was aware of more than 10 searches involving candidates from several factions running for the Coordination Council for the first time. They were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fd4b50da2a3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Searches Of Relatives Of Coordination Council Candidates Continue"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540118","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=540118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}