{"id":73220,"date":"2024-03-15T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/73220\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"fundraiser-for-late-political-prisoners-gravestone-collects-e2000","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/73220\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser for late political prisoner’s gravestone collects \u20ac2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 15, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> A fundraiser for late political prisoner Ihar Lednik\u2019s gravestone has collected \u20ac2,015 since March 11, according to the BySol solidarity foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lednik died on February 20 at a Minsk district hospital, where he was taken from the Babrujsk penal colony. He had a disability and reportedly died of heart failure. He was buried in Barysa\u016d, Minsk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police arrested Lednik in April 2022. Five months later, Judge Ta\u0107ciana \u0160ocik sentenced him to three years in prison for allegedly slandering Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka in an article that he wrote for the Belarusian Social Democratic Party\u2019s journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2022, the Barysa\u016d District Court declared Lednik\u2019s Facebook page extremist content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lednik\u2019s death brought 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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