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March 11, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The BYSOL Foundation is raising funds for a gravestone for Ihar Lednik, a political prisoner who died in captivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gravestone costs \u20ac2,000, and you can donate here<\/a>. Lednik was buried on February 22 in Barysa\u016d, Minsk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BYSOL Foundation has repeatedly emphasized that it is unsafe to donate to political prisoners from Belarus. The Ministry of Internal Affairs can track money transfers from Belarusian accounts and prosecute donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lednik died on February 20 at a Minsk district hospital, where he was taken from the Babrujsk penal colony. He was a Group II disabled person, and died of heart failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police arrested him in April 2022. Five months later, Judge Ta\u0107ciana \u0160ocik sentenced Lednik to three years in prison for allegedly libeling the head of state in an article that he wrote for the Belarusian Social Democratic Party’s journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2022, the Barysa\u016d District Court declared Lednik’s Facebook page extremist content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lednik\u2019s death brought the death toll of Belarusian political prisoners to five. Vadzim Chra\u015bko died at a penal colony in January 2024. Vitold A\u0161urak died in May 2022; Mika\u0142aj Klimovi\u010d, in May 2023. Artist Ale\u015b Pu\u0161kin died in July 2023 after being hospitalized from a Hrodna prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 11, Pozirk. The BYSOL Foundation is raising funds for a gravestone for Ihar Lednik, a political prisoner who died in captivity. The gravestone costs \u20ac2,000, and you can donate here. Lednik was buried on February 22 in Barysa\u016d, Minsk region. The BYSOL Foundation has repeatedly emphasized that it is unsafe to donate to political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":68314,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-72293","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFoundation raising money for gravestone for late political prisoner | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 11, Pozirk. The BYSOL Foundation is raising funds for a gravestone for Ihar Lednik, a political prisoner who died in captivity. 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