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All political prisoners should be immediately released.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Authorities failed to provide timely medical care to the prominent dissident who suffered from a perforated ulcer, the <span>MOST<\/span> news website reported citing an unnamed source. He died in the early hours of July 11.<\/p>\n<p>Pu\u0161kin was sentenced to prison for insulting state symbols and inciting hatred after investigators seized his painting of Ja\u016dhien \u017dychar, a commander of an anti-Soviet resistance group in the 1940-50s, and nationally-styled items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, BPN. The European Union (EU) has called on the Belarusian government to investigate the death of artist Ale\u015b Pu\u0161kin, saying that he died under &#8220;dubious circumstances&#8221; while serving a five-year prison sentence. Spokeswoman Nabila Massrali said on Twitter: &#8220;The EU urges the Belarusian authorities to launch an enquiry into the circumstances and cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47624","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>EU calls on Minsk to investigate death of jailed artist | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 13, BPN. 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