{"id":34227,"date":"2021-01-11T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/kolichestvo-politzakljuchjonnyh-v-belarusi-i-v-mire"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:14:41","slug":"the-number-of-political-prisoners-in-belarus-and-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/the-number-of-political-prisoners-in-belarus-and-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"The number of political prisoners in Belarus and in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the data of the human rights center \u00abViasna\u00bb, today in Belarus 169 political prisoners. Belarus surpasses several larger States in the number of political prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human rights organizations report that there are 314 political prisoners in Russia today, 27 in Kazakhstan, 253 in Vietnam and 350 in Venezuela.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides 169 political prisoners in Belarus, \u00abViasna\u00bb knows about more than 900 criminal cases against Belarusians. Cases have been brought in connection with the election campaign and protests in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We understand that by building fabricated criminal cases and trying to suppress the voice of the people, the current regime is provoking even greater resentment and the pursuit of justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support political prisoners through the <a href=\"http:\/\/politzek.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">politzek.me<\/a>. Especially support those who have fewer friends on the site than others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for your solidarity!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Data on political prisoners in different countries are valid at the end of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources of information:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia. Human Rights Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/memohrc.org\/ru\/pzk-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00abMemorial\u00bb<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kazakhstan. <a href=\"http:\/\/tirek.info\/informatsiya-po-politicheskim-presledovaniyam-itogi-goda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TIREK<\/a> fund.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vietnam. <a href=\"https:\/\/the88project.org\/database\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christian Human Rights Organization<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Venezuela. Human Rights Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/foropenal.com\/en\/presos-politicos\/#listado-presos-politicos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00abVenezuelan Criminal Forum\u00bb<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the data of the human rights center \u00abViasna\u00bb, today in Belarus 169 political prisoners. Belarus surpasses several larger States in the number of political prisoners. Human rights organizations report that there are 314 political prisoners in Russia today, 27 in Kazakhstan, 253 in Vietnam and 350 in Venezuela. Besides 169 political prisoners in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[221,209],"class_list":["post-34227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-political-prisoners","tag-political-prisoners-and-human-rights-violations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35011,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227\/revisions\/35011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}