{"id":558084,"date":"2026-07-08T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=558084"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:01:47","slug":"another-40-people-granted-former-political-prisoner-status-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/another-40-people-granted-former-political-prisoner-status-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Another 40 People Granted &#8220;Former Political Prisoner&#8221; Status in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Another 40 people have been recognised as former political prisoners in Belarus, the Viasna Human Rights Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/spring96.org\/en\/news\/120676\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are: <strong>Uladzimir Aheyevets, Ruslan Aliashkevich, Dzmitry Auchynka,\u00a0Pavel Barazna, Karyna Bardukhai,\u00a0Vadzim Bachkouski,\u00a0Vital Bystrou, Anhelina Vasilyeva,\u00a0Yana Halimskaya,\u00a0Maksim Hancharou,\u00a0Raman Hubanau, Maksim Davidovich,\u00a0Dzmitry Dzianisau, Dzmitry Drozd,\u00a0Ihar Zhuk, Pavel Kavalchuk,\u00a0Yury Kanapliou,\u00a0Siarhei Kashepau,\u00a0Yahor Krytski,\u00a0Yaraslau Kurko, Maksim Lahunovich, Aliaksandr Leanavich, Anton Madzhuha, Dzmitry Maksimchuk, Ihar Maltsau, Yauhen Mandryk, Yauhen Pakatashkin, Aliaksei Pashkevich, Yauhen Prakopchyk, Maksim Sauranchuk, Andrei Seliazniou, Siarhei Sirotka, Illia Smaliuha, Alina Smiarchynskaya, Yauhen Stralkouski, Yauhen Stsepaniuk, Lidziya Fiodarava, Ruslan Charnahrebel, Mikita Chyzheuski,\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Dzmitry Chebanik<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We assess the persecution of the above-mentioned persons as politically motivated persecution in connection with their exercise of freedom of peaceful assembly, the right to association, and freedom of expression in relation to the announced results of the presidential elections of the Republic of Belarus, the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, and other socially significant events,&#8221;<\/i> the human rights defenders said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 40 people have been recognised as former political prisoners in Belarus, the Viasna Human Rights Centre reported. They are: Uladzimir Aheyevets, Ruslan Aliashkevich, Dzmitry Auchynka,\u00a0Pavel Barazna, Karyna Bardukhai,\u00a0Vadzim Bachkouski,\u00a0Vital Bystrou, Anhelina Vasilyeva,\u00a0Yana Halimskaya,\u00a0Maksim Hancharou,\u00a0Raman Hubanau, Maksim Davidovich,\u00a0Dzmitry Dzianisau, Dzmitry Drozd,\u00a0Ihar Zhuk, Pavel Kavalchuk,\u00a0Yury Kanapliou,\u00a0Siarhei Kashepau,\u00a0Yahor Krytski,\u00a0Yaraslau Kurko, Maksim Lahunovich, Aliaksandr Leanavich, Anton Madzhuha, Dzmitry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":494570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4e827ee1e88.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Another 40 People Granted \u00abFormer Political Prisoner\u00bb Status in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558084","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\/558084","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=558084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}