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Belarusian Activist Serving Prison Sentence For Protests Reportedly Dies Of Heart Attack

Activist Vitold AshurakA 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.

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