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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Yuras Karmanau

Artist who dumped manure at Belarusian president's office dies in prison, wife says

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A Belarusian artist who once dumped manure outside an office of President Alexander Lukashenko has died in a prison, where he was serving a five-year sentence, human rights activists and his wife said Tuesday.

Ales Pushkin, 57, died in a prison in Grodno in western Belarus of an unknown cause, even though he wasn't known to be sick, according to the Viasna human rights center.

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