{"id":128572,"date":"2025-03-04T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/128572\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"viasna-sounds-alarm-over-jailed-colleagues-health","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/128572\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasna sounds alarm over jailed colleagues’ health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Event in Prague on March 3\n <\/div>\n \n
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March 4, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The health of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Ale\u015b Bialacki and his associates Valiancin Stefanovi\u010d and U\u0142adzimir \u0141abkovi\u010d has deteriorated drastically, Kanstancin Staradubiec of the Viasna Human Rights Center said at a themed event in Prague yesterday, marking two years since their trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prison wardens restrict their food and medicine parcels as an instrument of additional pressure, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Observatory for the protection of human rights defenders, uniting the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), released a statement yesterday, denouncing arbitrary and severe harassment and ill-treatment of jailed rights defenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group also urged Minsk to immediately and unconditionally release all other prisoners convicted in politically-motivated cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viasna’s founder Bialacki, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, has been held in custody since July 2021. Two years ago, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Stefanovi\u010d, his deputy and FIDH vice president, was given nine years. \u0141abkovi\u010d, who coordinated the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign, is serving a seven-year sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of March 4, human rights defenders identified at least 1,234 political prisoners but the real number is considerably higher because many cases go undocumented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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