{"id":601064,"date":"2026-11-09T23:35:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=601064"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:19:42","slug":"belarusian-citizen-detained-in-georgia-over-expired-documents-remanded-in-custody-for-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-citizen-detained-in-georgia-over-expired-documents-remanded-in-custody-for-three-months","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Citizen Detained in Georgia Over Expired Documents Remanded in Custody for Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Belarusian citizen detained in Georgia on November 6 for having an expired passport has been remanded in custody for three months, human rights defender <b>Raman Kisliak<\/b> told <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/211135\/\">Pozirk<\/a>. The court issued the detention order on November 9.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cUnfortunately, I was unable to attend the hearing. Over the past few months, this is the fourth time I have been unable to enter and attend court hearings because I am no longer allowed in without a valid document,\u201d<\/i> Kisliak said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Georgian human rights defenders attended the hearing. The court rejected the lawyer&#8217;s arguments and ordered the man&#8217;s detention.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThere is a five-day period during which the detention order can be appealed. After that, there will be court proceedings concerning deportation,\u201d<\/i> Kisliak said.<\/p>\n<p>Kisliak noted that such hearings are conducted very quickly and that the judge rushes the participants.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe problem was that, as a result, the representative of the Interior Ministry&#8217;s Migration Department spoke so quickly that even the Georgian human rights defenders noted that not everything could be heard. A complaint was therefore filed stating that the proceedings were not open in this respect,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian citizen was <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-man-with-expired-passport-detained-in-georgia-faces-deportation-to-belarus\">detained in the Tbilisi metro on November 6<\/a>. His Belarusian passport and temporary identity document issued in Georgia had expired. He was taken to the Migration Department.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian citizen had previously applied for international protection in Georgia on the grounds of political persecution in Belarus but was denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belarusian citizen detained in Georgia on November 6 for having an expired passport has been remanded in custody for three months, human rights defender Raman Kisliak told Pozirk. The court issued the detention order on November 9. \u201cUnfortunately, I was unable to attend the hearing. Over the past few months, this is the fourth [&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\/6af2c59120bc8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Citizen Detained in Georgia Over Expired Documents Remanded in Custody for Three Months"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601064","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=601064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601065,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601064\/revisions\/601065"}],"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=601064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}