Belarusian authorities should immediately end the ill-treatment of Maria Kalesnikava and all the other political prisoners, 24 international and Belarusian rights groups said today.
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Opposition politician Kalesnikava is being held in solitary confinement and is not receiving adequate medical care despite serious health problems. She is being denied essential foods and medicines.
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Belarusian authorities broke the jailed dissident Maria Kolesnikova's contact with her family in the winter. "Cutting off contact with the outside world is real torture," Tatsiana Khomich, Kolesnikova's sister, told DW.