{"id":566436,"date":"2026-08-07T19:25:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=566436"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:51:09","slug":"head-of-belarusian-community-in-ukraine-frantskevich-banned-from-entering-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/head-of-belarusian-community-in-ukraine-frantskevich-banned-from-entering-poland","title":{"rendered":"Head of Belarusian Community in Ukraine Frantskevich Banned From Entering Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Aliaksei Frantskevich<\/b>, head of the public association &#8220;Biloruska Spilnota Ukrainy&#8221; (Belarusian Community of Ukraine), has been denied entry to Poland. He was attempting to enter the country from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;I was not allowed into Poland. They have not yet explained the reason, and I am waiting for an explanation,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> Frantskevich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lesha.franc\/posts\/pfbid031eQ43cYMTEN5Kz28Sk54DF3kz2fT5KdUsc3BPPJzWkAY2Zyksud3aCo7zNbvwZsFl\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook. He later clarified that he had been banned from entering Poland for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Frantskevich was traveling to Warsaw to take part in the New Belarus Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Aliaksei Frantskevich is a Belarusian activist living in Ukraine, the founder of the Ukrainian charitable foundation Vilna Bilorus and the head of the public association &#8220;Biloruska Spilnota Ukrainy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksei Frantskevich, head of the public association &#8220;Biloruska Spilnota Ukrainy&#8221; (Belarusian Community of Ukraine), has been denied entry to Poland. He was attempting to enter the country from Ukraine. &#8220;I was not allowed into Poland. They have not yet explained the reason, and I am waiting for an explanation,&#8221; Frantskevich wrote on Facebook. He later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":566435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a760d0171fb8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Head of Belarusian Community in Ukraine Frantskevich Banned From Entering Poland"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127,143094],"tags":[143248],"class_list":["post-566436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-incident","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566436","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=566436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}