This hospitalization comes when last week the 40 -year -old opponent, sentenced to eleven years in prison last year, had been placed in isolation, under the pretext of “rude behavior”.
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It is one of the figures of the Belarusian opposition to the regime of President Alexandre Loukachenko. Maria Kolesnikova, who is serving an eleven years in prison, was hospitalized on Tuesday, November 29, her support said. “Maria was hospitalized in resuscitation in Gomel”, in the south-east of the country, wrote in a press release the press service of Viktor Babaryko, another opponent of power also imprisoned, of which she is close.
According to the document, the 40 -year -old opponent was admitted on Monday in a surgical care unit, before being transferred to the resuscitation service. This hospitalization comes when, last week, Mr. Babaryko’s press service announced that the musician had been placed in isolation, under the pretext of “rude behavior”. His lawyer had been denied the right to see her.
“Terrible news! Our dear Macha [diminutive of Maria], we all hope that you will be fine,” wrote on Telegram the head of the Belarusian opposition in exile on Tuesday, svetlana tsikhanovskaïa.
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Large figure of the protest of the Belarusian regime since then, Maria Kolesnikova had been imprisoned in September 2020 after having spectacularly resistant to an attempted expulsion. According to his relatives, the special Belarusian services (KGB) had removed it, then put a bag on his head to drive it to the Ukrainian border. Refusing to leave her country, she had jumped from a window and torn her passport, which had prevented her expulsion.
Following a trial on closed doors, M Me Kolesnikova was then sentenced in September 2021 to eleven years in prison. Belarusian justice has found him guilty of “a conspiracy aimed at seizing power”, “calls for actions undermining national security” and “creation of extremist training”. His co -accused, lawyer MAKSIM ZNAK, had been inflicted a sentence of ten years’ imprisonment in a prison colony of high security.
They both worked for Viktor Babaryko, rival of the Biélorusian president, sentenced in 2021 to fourteen years in prison for fraud, a case which he denounced as a political. They also belonged to the Coordination Council of seven members set up by the opposition after the presidential election in August 2020 to try to organize a peaceful transition after more than twenty years of power of Alexandre Loukachenko.
A few weeks after the conviction of Maria Kolesnikova, the Council of Europe had awarded him the Prix des Rights Vaclav-Havel 2021, greeting his “courage”. The protest movement, which had gathered tens of thousands of demonstrators in the summer of 2020, had been gradually matted, with thousands of arrests, forced exiles and imprisonments of opponents, media managers and NGO.
Westerners have adopted several sanctions trains against the Minsk regime, which, on the other hand, enjoys the unwavering support of Moscow. Allied with Russia, the Belarus of Mr. Loukachenko served as a rear base for the Russian troops for their offensive against Ukraine at the end of February.