Lithuanian executive calls for solutions after citizen dies in Belarusian jail.
A Lithuanian citizen arrested at the border between Lithuania and Belarus has died in a Belarusian jail. The Lithuanian government simplest learnt of the dying after repeated makes an attempt to touch the detainee.
“Many requests were made, many letters were written, many appeals were made for a meeting. We have not been given it, so we wrote another note. As a response to this note, we have received a call from the Belarusian institutions that it is not possible to organize a meeting, because the Lithuanian citizen is dead,” says Asta Andrijauskiene, the Lithuanian Ambassador-at-Large to Belarus.
Surprised and outraged by the death of the Lithuanian citizen, the Lithuanian authorities are demanding explanations from their Belarusian counterparts.
According to the Lithuanian ambassador, “many Lithuanian electorate are detained in Belarus” for various causes. In maximum instances, the government are knowledgeable through individuals who have misplaced monitor of relations who’ve left for Belarus.
Exiled Belarusian opposition chief Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya final week marched to the rustic’s embassy in Lithuania, protecting a photograph of her imprisoned husband and critical details about him after a yr of being incommunicado.
Siarhei Tsikhanouski is amongst a number of outstanding imprisoned opposition figures whom relations say have no longer been heard from in a yr or extra.
“For exactly a year, neither I nor my children know about the fate of Siarhei, who is being held in prison by the Belarusian authorities in complete isolation,” Tsikhanouskaya mentioned.
She known as at the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to interfere with Belarus concerning the destiny of political prisoners.
