{"id":32205,"date":"2021-02-09T23:16:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/swedish-embassy-in-minsk-harbours-two-belarusians-for-five-months"},"modified":"2021-02-09T23:16:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:16:45","slug":"swedish-embassy-in-minsk-harbours-two-belarusians-for-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/09\/swedish-embassy-in-minsk-harbours-two-belarusians-for-five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish embassy in Minsk harbours two Belarusians for five months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father and son sought refuge after protests but are becoming a diplomatic issue for Sweden<\/p><p>Two Belarusians who sought refuge in the Swedish embassy in Minsk in September are still there five months later, Sweden\u2019s foreign ministry has announced, in a case turning into a diplomatic headache.<\/p><p>A father and son, Vitaly and Vladislav Kuznechiki, tried to enter the Swedish embassy in the capital of Belarus on 11 September to seek asylum in the midst of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/13\/belarus-100000-join-rally-against-lukashenko-on-eve-of-putin-showdown\">widespread protests disputing the election of President Alexander Lukashenko<\/a>.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/taxi-driver-helps-protester-escape-from-riot-police-in-belarus\">Video shows taxi driver helping protester escape police in Belarus<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/swedish-embassy-in-minsk-harbours-two-belarusians-for-five-months\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/swedish-embassy-in-minsk-harbours-two-belarusians-for-five-months\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father and son sought refuge after protests but are becoming a diplomatic issue for SwedenTwo Belarusians who sought refuge in the Swedish embassy in Minsk in September are still there five months later, Sweden\u2019s foreign ministry has announced, in a ca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7270,78,471,6,238,7269,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32206,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32205\/revisions\/32206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}