According to what the woman, Natalia Pinchuk, revealed to The Associated Press (AP), the family has been trying to provide her with medicines, but the Belarusian authorities refuse to deliver them.
The Belarusian Interior Ministry did not respond to an AP request for information.
Remember that Belarusian democracy activist Ales Bialiatski, aged 61, is serving a 10-year prison sentence. According to his family, he suffers from a series of chronic illnesses that worsened during the three years he was behind bars.
Bialiatski was detained following the mass protests that followed the 2020 elections in Belarus, which gave Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term in office. The election was considered fraudulent by Western leaders and many Belarusians, triggering mass protests in the Eastern European nation.
In March 2023, a court found Bialiatski and three of his colleagues at the Viasna Human Rights Center guilty of smuggling and financing actions that violate public order.
Lukashenko, a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1994. During the 2020 protests, the largest in Belarusian history, more than 35,000 people were detained and thousands were beaten by the police.
The repression of dissent continues four years later.
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