{"id":575060,"date":"2026-09-09T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=575060"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:11:44","slug":"even-a-short-trip-to-belarus-can-result-in-detention-viasna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/even-a-short-trip-to-belarus-can-result-in-detention-viasna","title":{"rendered":"Even A Short Trip To Belarus Can Result In Detention \u2014 Viasna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>People continue to be detained after returning to Belarus from abroad. One such case became known this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/viasna96\/36339\">the Viasna human rights center reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights defenders note that even a short trip to Belarus can end in detention, the opening of a criminal case and imprisonment for several months or years.<\/p>\n<p>The risk of persecution also remains for those who come for a short time to visit relatives, resolve personal matters, or collect documents or belongings.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBefore traveling to Belarus, it is important to take these risks into account and not regard the absence of previous problems with the security forces as a guarantee of safety,\u201d<\/em> Viasna warns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People continue to be detained after returning to Belarus from abroad. One such case became known this week, the Viasna human rights center reports. Human rights defenders note that even a short trip to Belarus can end in detention, the opening of a criminal case and imprisonment for several months or years. The risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":501140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa193594e9b2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Even A Short Trip To Belarus Can Result In Detention \u2014 Viasna"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-575060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575060","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=575060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}