It became known on 11 July 2023 that the Belarusian political prisoner, artist Aleś Puškin [Ales Pushkin] died in the hospital’s intensive care unit. According to reports, he developed peritonitis due to untimely medical care, resulting in a septic condition and multiple organ failure.
Convicted under Article 370 of the Criminal Code (desecration of state symbols) and Article 130 of the Criminal Code (incitement to hatred or discord), Puškin was sentenced to five years in a maximum-security penal colony. In August 2022, the correctional facility’s administration placed the artist in a ward-type room for five months. According to human rights defenders, on 11 November 2022, Ivacevičy District Judge Aliaksandr Kirylovič [Aliaksandr Kirylovich] ruled to change the imprisonment routine for Aleś Puškin from the correctional colony regime to the prison regime for one and a half years. Shortly after, he was moved to prison No. 1 in Hrodna.