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Another political prisoner dies in Belarus
2024-11-01 22:10:04 / BOTA
A 22-year-old Russian man, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of espionage and "facilitating extremist activities", has died in a prison in Belarus. This is what the Vyasna human rights center said on November 1.
Preliminary information suggests that Dmitriy Schletgauer died on October 11, less than a month after being transferred to prison number 15 in Mogilev. The cause of his death has not been revealed.
Schletgauer was tried earlier in the year on two articles of the Criminal Code, after being arrested during the crackdown on dissent after the contested presidential elections of 2020, which gave the Belarusian authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka a sixth presidential term.
Schletgauer is the seventh political prisoner to die in prisons in Belarus since the crackdown on protests. Schletgauer was born in Slavgorod, Russia, and had obtained a residence permit in Belarus in 2018. There are more than 1,500 political prisoners in Belarusian prisons. Among them are journalists, human rights activists and politicians.
Western countries do not recognize the results of the 2020 presidential elections and the EU has imposed sanctions on Minsk due to the suppression of the participants in these protests./Rel/
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