{"id":548344,"date":"2026-06-04T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=548344"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:11:43","slug":"more-than-30-searches-conducted-in-ehu-case-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/more-than-30-searches-conducted-in-ehu-case-rights-group","title":{"rendered":"More Than 30 Searches Conducted in \u201cEHU Case\u201d \u2014 Rights Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Security forces have carried out more than 30 searches across Belarus as part of the so-called \u201cEHU case,\u201d the human rights center Viasna <a href=\"https:\/\/spring96.org\/be\/news\/120426\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal case has been opened under articles related to facilitating and financing \u201cextremist activity.\u201d Searches are being conducted at the homes of students, graduates and other individuals connected to the university, as well as their relatives.<\/p>\n<p>According to Viasna, parents of students are being pressured to contact their children who live in Lithuania and urge them to withdraw from the university and return to Belarus. Students are allegedly being given 10 days to leave the university. Security officers reportedly threaten to detain parents if their children do not withdraw from EHU.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights defenders say that some relatives of students have already been detained.<\/p>\n<p>Security officers have also visited university graduates. Cases have been reported involving alumni who graduated between 2019 and 2025. They are being required to provide their European Humanities University diplomas.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, Belarus\u2019 Supreme Court designated the Vilnius-based <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/supreme-court-declares-european-humanities-university-an-extremist-organisation\">European Humanities University (EHU), together with its structural subdivisions, as an \u201cextremist organization\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecutor General\u2019s Office has claimed that the university prepares Belarusian youth <i>\u201cto implement Western scenarios for transforming the political system, promoting so-called democratic values, and advancing \u2018alternative\u2019 interpretations of historical, cultural and other events.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces have carried out more than 30 searches across Belarus as part of the so-called \u201cEHU case,\u201d the human rights center Viasna reported. The criminal case has been opened under articles related to facilitating and financing \u201cextremist activity.\u201d Searches are being conducted at the homes of students, graduates and other individuals connected to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a224c823c06d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"More Than 30 Searches Conducted in \u201cEHU Case\u201d \u2014 Rights Group"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548344","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=548344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}