{"id":565241,"date":"2026-08-03T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=565241"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:59:17","slug":"man-with-saber-detained-at-the-belarusian-lithuanian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/man-with-saber-detained-at-the-belarusian-lithuanian-border","title":{"rendered":"Man With Saber Detained at the Belarusian-Lithuanian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A man arrived in Belarus from Lithuania carrying a saber. The weapon was discovered at the border, and administrative proceedings were initiated.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old man was crossing the border by car at the Beniakoni border crossing. He chose the red channel and submitted a declaration for the temporary import of his vehicle. During the inspection, customs officers found a saber in a scabbard inside the car, the State Customs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/customs_bel\/13650\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An expert examination confirmed that the item qualifies as a bladed weapon. Administrative proceedings have been initiated under Part 1 of Article 15.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for failure to declare goods.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_565150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565150\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-565150\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-03_20-22-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-03_20-22-14.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-03_20-22-14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-03_20-22-14-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-03_20-22-14-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-03_20-22-14-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-565150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: State Customs Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man arrived in Belarus from Lithuania carrying a saber. The weapon was discovered at the border, and administrative proceedings were initiated. The 47-year-old man was crossing the border by car at the Beniakoni border crossing. He chose the red channel and submitted a declaration for the temporary import of his vehicle. During the inspection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":565240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a71a9e92652e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Man With Saber Detained at the Belarusian-Lithuanian Border"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565241","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\/565241","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=565241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}