{"id":542833,"date":"2026-05-15T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542833"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:24:54","slug":"appeal-by-priests-during-2020-protests-declared-extremist-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/appeal-by-priests-during-2020-protests-declared-extremist-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Appeal by Priests During 2020 Protests Declared \u201cExtremist\u201d in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019 Ministry of Information has updated the \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials.\u201d The list now includes the \u201cAppeal to the Christians of Belarus,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravmir.ru\/pismo-svyashhennikov-i-miryan-k-hristianam-belarusi\/\">published<\/a> on the Pravmir website in the autumn of 2020 during the period of mass protests. The corresponding decision was issued on May 11, 2026, by the Central District Court of Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>The list of extremist materials was also expanded to include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>social media pages of the initiative \u201cSPETSPADRAZDZYALENNE 1514\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>Facebook pages \u201cAlaksandar Arsiona\u016d,\u201d \u201cYuliya Yukhno,\u201d \u201cMova Nanova \u2014 Televersiya,\u201d and \u201cNatalya Goryachko Basalyga\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>Threads pages \u201cchinchinchannelofficial,\u201d \u201cMikalai Bandarenka,\u201d and \u201ckyky_org\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the YouTube video \u201cWhy Did I Leave Belarus? When Will I Return?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It should be recalled that in Belarus, extremism-related accusations are used by the authorities to combat opposition to Lukashenka and dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019 Ministry of Information has updated the \u201cRepublican List of Extremist Materials.\u201d The list now includes the \u201cAppeal to the Christians of Belarus,\u201d published on the Pravmir website in the autumn of 2020 during the period of mass protests. The corresponding decision was issued on May 11, 2026, by the Central District Court of Minsk. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a07ffaa0beef.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Appeal by Priests During 2020 Protests Declared \u201cExtremist\u201d in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542833","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=542833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}