{"id":47605,"date":"2023-07-11T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/artist-ales-puskin-dies-in-prison-wife\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"artist-ales-puskin-dies-in-prison-wife","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47605\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Ale\u015b Pu\u0161kin dies in prison \u2013 wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>July 11, <span>BPN.<\/span> <\/b>Ale\u015b Pu\u0161kin, a prominent dissident artist, died last night at the age of 57 at&nbsp;an intense care unit in Belarus &#8220;under unclear circumstances,&#8221; his wife Janina Dziemuch has said on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p> He was serving a five-year sentence in a maximum security penal colony,&nbsp;convicted of insulting state symbols and inciting hatred, after investigators seized his painting of&nbsp;Ja\u016dhien \u017dychar, a commander of an anti-Soviet resistance group in the 1940-50s, and nationally-styled items. The charges were politically motivated, according to human rights activists.<\/p>\n<p> A national revival movement veteran, Pu\u0161kin was active with the Belarusian Popular Front in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p> In 1999, he was given&nbsp;a two-year suspended sentence&nbsp;for his&nbsp;performance outside the presidential office in Minsk, where he used a pitchfork to pin Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s photo to a pile of manure. <\/p>\n<p> Police arrested him in March 2021 after his depiction of the&nbsp;anti-Soviet underground fighter had infuriated prosecutors. Last year, a local judge sent him to a prison where he was held until his death.<\/p>\n<p> The administration of Colony No. 22&nbsp;in Ivacevi\u010dy, Brest region, placed him&nbsp;in the colony&#8217;s internal prison also known as PKT&nbsp;for five months, the&nbsp;Viasna Human Rights Center&nbsp;reported in August 2022.<\/p>\n<p> Inmates are normally sent to PKT units for malicious violation of prison regulations. They labor separately from other convicts, and receive reduced food rations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 11, BPN. Ale\u015b Pu\u0161kin, a prominent dissident artist, died last night at the age of 57 at&nbsp;an intense care unit in Belarus &#8220;under unclear circumstances,&#8221; his wife Janina Dziemuch has said on Facebook. He was serving a five-year sentence in a maximum security penal colony,&nbsp;convicted of insulting state symbols and inciting hatred, after investigators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47605","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>Artist Ale\u015b Pu\u0161kin dies in prison \u2013 wife | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 11, BPN. 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