{"id":586090,"date":"2026-10-07T11:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=586090"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:43:08","slug":"more-than-2-500-people-sentenced-in-belarus-for-extremist-crimes-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/more-than-2-500-people-sentenced-in-belarus-for-extremist-crimes-in-18-months","title":{"rendered":"More Than 2,500 People Sentenced in Belarus for \u201cExtremist Crimes\u201d in 18 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>More than 2,500 people have been sentenced in Belarus for \u201cextremist crimes\u201d over the past 18 months. Prosecutor General <strong>Dzmitry Hora<\/strong> said this in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cActive efforts have been made to investigate extremist crimes, identify those responsible and bring them to criminal justice. Over the past 18 months, prosecutors have supported the state prosecution in more than 2,000 criminal cases in this category involving 2,500 people. Law enforcement agencies are taking measures to bring to criminal justice all persons who have committed extremist and terrorist crimes since 2020,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>In Belarus, charges of extremism are used by law enforcement agencies to prosecute opponents of Lukashenka and dissent more broadly.<\/p>\n<p>Hora also said that since 2022, criminal cases against more than 150 people have been sent to court under special proceedings. This procedure is used against people who are abroad. The trials are held in absentia.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cTogether with state security agencies, work has been carried out to ban the activities of terrorist and extremist organizations. Following applications by the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, the Supreme Court recognized the \u2018United Transitional Cabinet\u2019 as a terrorist organization and the \u2018European Humanities University\u2019 as an extremist organization,\u201d<\/i> Hora added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2,500 people have been sentenced in Belarus for \u201cextremist crimes\u201d over the past 18 months. Prosecutor General Dzmitry Hora said this in the National Assembly. \u201cActive efforts have been made to investigate extremist crimes, identify those responsible and bring them to criminal justice. Over the past 18 months, prosecutors have supported the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":586089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac6061f87eb9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"More Than 2,500 People Sentenced in Belarus for \u201cExtremist Crimes\u201d in 18 Months"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586090","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=586090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586092,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586090\/revisions\/586092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}