{"id":600393,"date":"2026-11-08T13:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=600393"},"modified":"2026-11-08T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T11:18:03","slug":"belarusian-man-with-expired-passport-detained-in-georgia-faces-deportation-to-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-man-with-expired-passport-detained-in-georgia-faces-deportation-to-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Man with Expired Passport Detained in Georgia, Faces Deportation to Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Belarusian citizen who is facing politically motivated persecution in his home country has been detained in Georgia. He faces deportation to Belarus. Human rights defender <b>Raman Kisliak<\/b> told <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/be\/news\/210918\/\">Pozirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian man was detained on November 6 during a document check in the metro. His Belarusian passport and temporary identity document issued in Georgia had expired. After the check, he was taken to the Migration Department.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHe will be brought before a court shortly for detention pending deportation,\u201d<\/i> Kisliak said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the human rights defender, the man had previously applied for international protection in Georgia because he was facing politically motivated persecution in Belarus. However, the Georgian authorities refused to grant him refugee status.<\/p>\n<p>Kisliak specified that the Migration Department and a city court had both issued negative decisions.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHe has not yet received a decision from the Court of Appeal, but, as I understand it, that decision was also negative,\u201d<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n<p>The detainee&#8217;s name has not been disclosed for security reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belarusian citizen who is facing politically motivated persecution in his home country has been detained in Georgia. He faces deportation to Belarus. Human rights defender Raman Kisliak told Pozirk. The Belarusian man was detained on November 6 during a document check in the metro. His Belarusian passport and temporary identity document issued in Georgia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":538509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af05a6e8214b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Man with Expired Passport Detained in Georgia, Faces Deportation to Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-600393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600393","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=600393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600394,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600393\/revisions\/600394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}