{"id":564266,"date":"2026-07-31T12:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=564266"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:21:03","slug":"man-convicted-in-hajun-case-added-to-belarus-extremist-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/man-convicted-in-hajun-case-added-to-belarus-extremist-list","title":{"rendered":"Man Convicted in &#8220;Hajun Case&#8221; Added to Belarus&#8217; &#8220;Extremist&#8221; List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus&#8217; Interior Ministry has added five more people to its &#8220;List of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is 50-year-old political prisoner <b>Aliaksandr Baranau<\/b> from the village of Penitsa in the Kalinkavichy district of the Homiel region. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/prisoners.spring96.org\/ru\/person\/aljaksandr-baranau\">the Viasna Human Rights Centre<\/a>, he was detained in January last year in connection with the &#8220;Hajun case&#8221;. The ministry&#8217;s list states that he is <em>&#8220;serving his sentence&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian Hajun was an OSINT monitoring project tracking the military activity of Russian and Belarusian forces. The monitoring group was established before the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by activist Anton Motolka. In early February 2025, Belarusian security forces gained access to the project&#8217;s chatbot. The project subsequently announced that it was ceasing operations.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;extremist&#8221; list now contains 6,811 names.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian authorities regularly use accusations of extremism to target political opponents and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus&#8217; Interior Ministry has added five more people to its &#8220;List of Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons Involved in Extremist Activity&#8221;. Among them is 50-year-old political prisoner Aliaksandr Baranau from the village of Penitsa in the Kalinkavichy district of the Homiel region. According to the Viasna Human Rights Centre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":564265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6c7714f0464.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Man Convicted in \u00abHajun Case\u00bb Added to Belarus\u2019 \u00abExtremist\u00bb List"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564266","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=564266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}