Pro-democracy activist Kłaskoŭski dies aged 46

(Radio Liberty)
June 5, Pozirk. Alaksandar Kłaskoŭski, a pro-democracy activist who spent time in prison over his role in an anti-government protest in Minsk after the 2010 presidential election, has died in the United States at the age of 46, his sister Volha Kłaskoŭski said on Facebook.
Kłaskoŭski is the son of Pozirk‘s political analyst, Alaksandar Kłaskoŭski. On December 19, 2010 he showed up at a Minsk protest against election fraud wearing his police uniform that he had kept after resigning from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was beaten and arrested in his apartment on December 21 and sentenced to five years in prison on May 26, 2011 only to be pardoned a several months later. Pozirk‘s staff offers its condolences to the family of the deceased.

Alaksandar Kłaskoŭski (left) at a protest on December 19, 2010
(Alaksandar Kłaskoŭski's Facebook page)
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