{"id":557335,"date":"2026-07-06T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=557335"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:22:11","slug":"group-of-18-detained-in-minsk-over-picnic-in-a-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/group-of-18-detained-in-minsk-over-picnic-in-a-park","title":{"rendered":"Group of 18 Detained in Minsk Over Picnic in a Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A group of 18 people gathered for a picnic in a park in Minsk. However, the outing ended at the Pershamaiski District Police Department. The human rights center <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/viasna96\/35611\">Viasna drew attention<\/a> to the account posted by a Threads user.<\/p>\n<p>According to the post, the group had gathered for a picnic. The gathering was interrupted by police officers, who eventually took everyone to the district police department, where their mobile phones were inspected. They were also made to sign a document without being allowed to read it.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees were held at the police department for two and a half hours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-557289 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-06_12-19-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-06_12-19-05.jpg 786w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-06_12-19-05-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-06_12-19-05-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-06_12-19-05-655x400.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 18 people gathered for a picnic in a park in Minsk. However, the outing ended at the Pershamaiski District Police Department. The human rights center Viasna drew attention to the account posted by a Threads user. According to the post, the group had gathered for a picnic. The gathering was interrupted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":520349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4b8fe7c3d8d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Group of 18 Detained in Minsk Over Picnic in a Park"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557335","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=557335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}