{"id":590071,"date":"2026-10-16T13:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=590071"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:28:25","slug":"belarus-begins-trial-in-absentia-of-dissidentby-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-begins-trial-in-absentia-of-dissidentby-founders","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Begins Trial in Absentia of Dissidentby Founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A trial in absentia of <strong>Maryna<\/strong> <strong>Kasinerava <\/strong>and <strong>Viachaslau Kasinerau<\/strong>, founders of the human rights initiative Dissidentby, began today at the Zavadski District Court in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>The couple are accused of creating an \u201cextremist formation\u201d or participating in one, inciting social hatred, discrediting Belarus, insulting <strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong>, and facilitating extremist activity. Maryna Kasinerava is also charged with repeatedly creating an \u201cextremist formation\u201d or leading one.<\/p>\n<p>Special proceedings against the Kasineraus began on 28 August.<\/p>\n<p>On 14 October, <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/security-forces-visit-relatives-of-dissidentby-co-founder\">Belarusian security forces visited Maryna Kasinerava\u2019s relatives<\/a> in search of the human rights defender herself. According to Kasinerava, they claimed to have received information that she had returned to Belarus and threatened her with a lengthy prison sentence. She linked the visits by security forces to a request to review the case materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trial in absentia of Maryna Kasinerava and Viachaslau Kasinerau, founders of the human rights initiative Dissidentby, began today at the Zavadski District Court in Minsk. The couple are accused of creating an \u201cextremist formation\u201d or participating in one, inciting social hatred, discrediting Belarus, insulting Aliaksandr Lukashenka, and facilitating extremist activity. Maryna Kasinerava is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":590072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad1fc4e4c1d9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus Begins Trial in Absentia of Dissidentby Founders"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590071","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=590071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590077,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590071\/revisions\/590077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}