{"id":68328,"date":"2024-02-20T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&p=68328"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"political-prisoner-ihar-lednik-dies","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/68328\/","title":{"rendered":"Political prisoner Ihar Lednik dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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February 20, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Political prisoner Ihar Lednik has died, the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) reported. He was 63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities arrested the journalist and civic activist on April 12, 2022. A judge sentenced him to 15 days in jail, but he was not released after serving his sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 6, 2022, Judge Ta\u0107ciana \u0160ocik sentenced Lednik to three years in prison for allegedly libeling the head of state in the BSDP’s journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lednik, a Group II disabled person, had heart problems. In June 2022, his lawyer said that his health deteriorated. A month later, the activist reportedly underwent gastrointestinal surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2022, a district judge declared Lednik’s Facebook page extremist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lednik’s death brings the death toll of Belarusian political prisoners to five. Vadzim Chra\u015bko died at a penal colony in January 2024. Vitold A\u0161urak died in May 2022; Mika\u0142aj Klimovi\u010d, in May 2023. Artist Ale\u015b Pu\u0161kin died in July 2023 after being hospitalized from a Hrodna prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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