{"id":21294,"date":"2026-03-21T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=21294"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:20:47","slug":"ilya-baryskevich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2026\/03\/21\/ilya-baryskevich.html","title":{"rendered":"Ilja Baryskievi\u010d (released on March 20, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Political persecution:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>On 13 November, a court in Minsk sentenced Ilja Baryskievi\u010d under Article 399-1 of the Criminal Code (discrediting the Republic of Belarus) to two years in prison and a fine of 300 base units (12,600 BYN = 3695 USD).<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, between 2020 and 2025, he \u201cpublished on the online resource Wikipedia 25 textual entries containing knowingly false information, including about historical facts and state symbols of the Republic of Belarus, the presidential elections and national referenda, the activities of state authorities and paramilitary organisations, and the legal status of citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ilja Baryskievi\u010d was released on 20 March 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wikipedia editor aka Kazimier Lachnovi\u010d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":21295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4310],"class_list":["post-21294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bylyya_lyudzi_slova_u_nyavoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294","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=21294"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22077,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294\/revisions\/22077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}