Belarusian Activist Serving Prison Sentence For Protests Reportedly Dies Of Heart Attack
A Belarusian political activist who was sentenced in January to five years in prison for participating in anti-government protests has reportedly died. The precise circumstances of Vitold Ashurak’s death weren’t immediately clear.
The news website Onliner and other media said he suffered a heart attack in a prison facility in eastern Belarus. Ashurak, 50, was a member of the Belarusian Popular Front opposition party and a coordinator of the For Freedom movement.
At a closed-door trial in January, a court found him guilty of gross violations of public order and violence against police. Exiled opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya condemned prison authorities for allowing Ashurak’s death.
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