{"id":44815,"date":"2022-12-07T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/council-of-europe-head-calls-on-minsk-to-free-political-prisoners-ensure-right-to-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"council-of-europe-head-calls-on-minsk-to-free-political-prisoners-ensure-right-to-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44815\/","title":{"rendered":"Council of Europe head calls on Minsk to free political prisoners, ensure right to healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>December 7, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pej\u010dinovi\u0107 Buri\u0107 expressed extreme concern \u201cw\/deterioration of the situation in Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cMy thoughts are with Maryja Kale\u015bnikava,\u201d she tweeted on December 6.<\/p>\n<p> On behalf of the Council of Europe, she urged Minsk to \u201cliberate all political prisoners\u201d and ensure their right to medical care.<\/p>\n<p> Law enforcers placed former presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka\u2019s campaign manager Maryja Kale\u015bnikava in Homiel\u2019s emergency hospital last week. She was operated on on November 28. This past weekend, they transferred her back to the penal colony.<\/p>\n<p> Babaryka\u2019s campaign said Kale\u015bnikava\u2019s hospitalization with a perforated ulcer and peritonitis was a result of ill-treatment in prison.<\/p>\n<p>As of December 7, human rights defenders identified at least 1,441 political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 7, BPN. Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pej\u010dinovi\u0107 Buri\u0107 expressed extreme concern \u201cw\/deterioration of the situation in Belarus.\u201d \u201cMy thoughts are with Maryja Kale\u015bnikava,\u201d she tweeted on December 6. On behalf of the Council of Europe, she urged Minsk to \u201cliberate all political prisoners\u201d and ensure their right to medical care. 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