Belarusian journalist and dissident Igor Lednik, sentenced to three years in prison for an article against the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has died in prison.
The news was given by the "Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly Party" which opposes the regime of the former Soviet Republic. The official cause of death of the 64th activist is cardiac arrest.
Igor Lednik died in the Minsk district hospital, where he was last transferred last year after his health deteriorated in the Mogilev region prison.
The Belarusian journalist was facing a sentence from 2022 for an anti-regime article for which he was accused of defaming President Alexander Lukashenko.
According to the court in Belarus, with his article, he had damaged the honor and dignity of the head of state.