On January 20, the Ministry of Internal Affairs updated "the list of Belarusian citizens, foreign citizens or stateless persons who are involved in extremist activities," reports @pozirkonline.

The list of additional directors includes the chief editor of the BelaPAN information campaign

Iryna Levshina

, ex-director of BelaPAN Dmitriy

Navazhilov

, former deputy director

Andrei Alexandrov

and his wife

Iryna Zlobina

.

Local historian and journalist

Igor Khmara

is also on the list .

Now there are 2350 people on the list.

On October 6 of last year, the Minsk Regional Court (judge

Vyacheslav Tuleyka , included in the sanctions lists of Western countries) sentenced Irina

Levshina

to 4 years of imprisonment in a general-regime prison,

Dmitrii Navzhilov

to 6 years of enhanced regime ,

Andrey Alexandrov

to 14 years of enhanced regime

, 9 years to his to

Irina Zlobina

's wife

.

The figures in the "BelaPAN" case were accused of creating an "extremist organization" under Part 1 of Art.

3611 of the Criminal Code (Aleksandrov, Levshina, Navazhilov), "treason against the state" under Part 1 of Art.

356 (Aleksandrov, Zlobina), non-payment of taxes in a large amount under Part 2 of Art.

243 (Aleksandrov, Navazhilov), as well as in the preparation of citizens to participate in riots under Part 2 of Art.

342, which was allegedly manifested in the payment of fines to protest participants (Aleksandrov, Zlobina).