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A teenager in Belarus has committed suicide after being accused of participating in anti-government protests.

A Belarusian teenager, against whom he had started investigation into his participation in anti-government demonstrations Last year, he ended his life by declaring that he could not withstand the pressure on him, the human rights organization Viasna-96 announced today, Wednesday (26/5).

Dmitry Stakhovsky committed suicide a few hours after being interrogated by security officials as part of an investigation into “mass riots”, as the Belarussian authorities call them, the APE-MPE notes.

Viasna-96 posted a snapshot of Stachowski’s latest post on social media, saying: “If you’re reading this, then I’m not alive. The Investigative Committee is responsible for that. “

“My endurance is exhausted”

“If the moral pressure on me had not continued, I would not have dared to commit such a horrible act as suicide. “But my endurance was exhausted,” he continued.

The young man seems to admit that he participated in the demonstrations, saying: “It is no longer a secret that I was (prosecuted) under Article 293, paragraph 2, of the Penal Code. In short, for the demonstrations.

Viasna showed a photo of Stachowski, in a purple sweatshirt and white sneakers, in a cramped room. He clarified that the young man was an orphan and lived in a state hostel. He stated that he was 17 years old, although the news site Belsat, citing his friends, wrote that he was 18.

The State Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating serious crimes, declined to comment. The statement only said that an 18-year-old resident of Minsk was found dead.

Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya wrote on Twitter that “the boy was being prosecuted for participating in protests” following last August’s presidential election. “It is shocking. (Alexander) Lukashenko is terrorizing the country, we have more and more victims. “State terrorism must stop.”

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