Human rights activists say Belarus is sewing yellow tags on political prisoners' clothes to single them out, in a move with echoes of Nazi Germany.
Thousands of Belarusians who have fled a brutal crackdown on dissent are shocked by the forced landing of a flight to arrest an opposition journalist.
Another prisoner given a yellow tag was Katsiaryna Barysevich, a journalist with the Tut.by independent news portal, who was released last month after serving six months on charges of revealing personal data in her report“I wouldn’t say that I have been broken,” Barysevich told reporters after her release. “I have learned to look calmly at mad things.”Fellow Tut.
“They were waking us up several times during the night, ordering us to report the criminal law articles we were charged with, and each morning they poured a bucketful of chlorine on the floor,” Kaspiarovich told the AP. “And they put a homeless woman who had lice in our cell.” Vitold Ashurok, who was among the first to draw attention to harsh conditions and yellow tags for political prisoners, died inside a prison in Shklov, where he was serving a five-year sentence for
. The authorities said Ashurok, 50, died of a heart attack May 21, although his death certificate didn’t list a cause of death.When relatives were given his body, which bore bruises and a bandage on his head, authorities released a video in which a man purported to be Ashurok was seen grasping his head and collapsing before officers enter. The opposition said the video was doctored.“An absolutely healthy person suddenly dies in custody ...
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