Mikalai Klimovicz, a Belarusian man who was sentenced to jail for sharing a satirical drawing of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on social media, has died in prison, according to a human rights group.
on social media, has died in prison, according to a human rights group.
The 61-year-old political prisoner only lasted a little over two months in jail, the Viasna Human Rights Center said Monday. He was sentenced in February to one year in jail on charges of insulting the president of the Belarus. Viasna learned of his death on Sunday. It was not clear what the cause of death was. Klimovicz had previously suffered stroke and had recently undergone heart surgery, according to Viasna.“Any prison sentence for me is death because I need to be under constant medical supervision and take many strong medications. I may not even survive a month,” he said in March.
Friends and family have previously expressed concern over his treatment and access to medical care during his detention, according to theThe Secretary General of the Council of Europe,“I deplore the death in prison of Belarusian blogger Mikalay Klimovich, my thoughts are with his family & friends,” she said on social media.
Andrej Stryzha, the head of the Belarusian human rights organization BYPOL, shared a photo of Klimovich Monday in a social media post calling for
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