{"id":571791,"date":"2026-08-27T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=571791"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:05:21","slug":"another-16-people-recognized-as-political-prisoners-in-belarus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/another-16-people-recognized-as-political-prisoners-in-belarus-2","title":{"rendered":"Another 16 People Recognized as Political Prisoners in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian human rights defenders have recognized another 16 people as political prisoners: <strong>Alena Arshanskaya, Raman Basalai, Maksim Bialkevich, Viktar Huryn, Dzmitry Zamirau, Maksim Kupreichyk, Viktoryia Liaukouskaya, Valery Melnikau, Larysa Novikava, Andrei Slesarenka, Hennadz Tarynski, Yury Filamenka, Palina Fralova, Aliaksandr Chukovich, Vadzim Zharabilau\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Dzianis Holubeu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They are facing charges or have been sentenced in connection with interaction with \u201cextremist formations\u201d and exercising freedom of expression, the Viasna Human Rights Centre reports.<\/p>\n<p>As of Aug. 27, 2026, the number of political prisoners in Belarus stands at 889.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian human rights defenders have recognized another 16 people as political prisoners: Alena Arshanskaya, Raman Basalai, Maksim Bialkevich, Viktar Huryn, Dzmitry Zamirau, Maksim Kupreichyk, Viktoryia Liaukouskaya, Valery Melnikau, Larysa Novikava, Andrei Slesarenka, Hennadz Tarynski, Yury Filamenka, Palina Fralova, Aliaksandr Chukovich, Vadzim Zharabilau\u00a0and\u00a0Dzianis Holubeu. They are facing charges or have been sentenced in connection with interaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":497670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a906e56c68f9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Another 16 People Recognized as Political Prisoners in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143178],"class_list":["post-571791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-politzakljuchennye"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571791","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=571791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}