{"id":21052,"date":"2025-11-19T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=21052"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:27:44","slug":"ruslan-ravyaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2025\/11\/19\/ruslan-ravyaka.html","title":{"rendered":"Rus\u0142an Raviaka (Home confinement)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Political persecution:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

He was detained on 5 December 2024 in Baranavi\u010dy. At the same time, seven former employees of the dissolved independent Baranavi\u010dy newspaper <\/span>Intex-press<\/span><\/i> were also detained. <\/span>Intex-press<\/span><\/i> had been published from 1994 to 2022. In 2022, it was stripped of its state registration, and in April 2023, the outlet\u2019s website and social media accounts were designated as \u201cextremist materials\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2022, he faced administrative persecution. On 4 January 2022, an offence report was filed against him in Baranavi\u010dy under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences for possession of \u201cextremist materials\u201d. Authorities claimed to have found Adolf Hitler\u2019s book <\/span>Mein Kampf<\/span><\/i> on the computer seized from him during a search in July 2021 at the <\/span>Intex-press<\/span><\/i> newsroom. Raviaka stated: \u201cI wrote a disagreement with the offence report because I have no idea how such a file appeared on my computer.\u201d He had used the computer since 2013 or 2015, while the file was dated 2007. A hearing was scheduled for 12 January 2022, but did not take place because the case materials were not transferred from the police to the court.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 19 August 2025, the Baranavi\u010dy Regional Court delivered a verdict under Part 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (facilitating extremist activity), sentencing Raviaka to home confinement and inclusion in the \u201cextremists list\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Publications:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Kupalskaja kvietka<\/span><\/i> (short story) \/\/ <\/span>Pier\u0161acviet<\/span><\/i>. 1994, No. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vartavy<\/span><\/i> (short story) \/\/ <\/span>Pier\u0161acviet<\/span><\/i>. 1995, No. 8.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jon zab\u0142udzi\u016dsia <\/span><\/i>(short story) \/\/ <\/span>Ma\u0142adosc<\/span><\/i>. 1995, No. 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nie treba nadaku\u010dac<\/span><\/i> (sketches) \/\/ <\/span>Pier\u0161acviet<\/span><\/i>. 1996, No. 8.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spakusa<\/span><\/i> (mystical short story) \/\/ <\/span>Ma\u0142adosc<\/span><\/i>. 1998, No. 4.<\/span>
\n<\/span>He translated from Polish into Belarusian short stories by Stanis\u0142aw Lem and the novel <\/span>\u017bycie rozbrojonego cz\u0142owieka<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>The Life of a Disarmed Man<\/span><\/i>) by Sergiusz Piasecki (ARCHE No. 5, 2014).<\/span><\/p>\n

Place of detention:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Home confinement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Journalist, translator, short story author.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":21053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4282],"class_list":["post-21052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-people-of-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21052"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21458,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21052\/revisions\/21458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}