{"id":46818,"date":"2023-05-12T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/human-rights-group-belarusian-political-prisoners-situation-obscure\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"human-rights-group-belarusian-political-prisoners-situation-obscure","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46818\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights group: Belarusian political prisoner\u2019s situation \u201cobscure\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 12, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Former presidential contender Viktar Babaryka, who was sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony, remains in an \u201cobscure\u201d situation, a human rights group has said.<\/p>\n<p> Mayday.Team said Babaryka was hospitalized with signs of physical abuse and his current location is unknown. It cited unconfirmed information that he is no longer listed in his labor squad.<\/p>\n<p> The group also said a former inmate of the Navapo\u0142ack colony confirmed that Babaryka had been held in its internal prison and faced \u201cpowerful pressure\u201d from the staff. Other prisoners were banned from talking to him, it said.<\/p>\n<p> Babaryka\u2019s hospitalization with signs of beating and a collapsed lung was reported by a worker rights group last month. His team said his whereabouts were unknown on April 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Rabo\u010dy Ruch group said Babaryka was at Navapo\u0142ack\u2019s city hospital for \u201cabout a week\u201d before being taken to a prison hospital in Minsk \u201caround May 3.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, BPN. Former presidential contender Viktar Babaryka, who was sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony, remains in an \u201cobscure\u201d situation, a human rights group has said. Mayday.Team said Babaryka was hospitalized with signs of physical abuse and his current location is unknown. It cited unconfirmed information that he is no longer listed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-46818","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Human rights group: Belarusian political prisoner\u2019s situation \u201cobscure\u201d | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 12, BPN. 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