Aliaksandr Klaskouski: Fundraising for Repatriation and Funeral Costs

Ali­ak­san­dr Klask­ous­ki (Jr.) was the son of well-known Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists Ali­ak­san­dr and Liud­mi­la Klask­ous­ki. On June 4, 2025, Ali­ak­san­dr sud­den­ly passed away. “We don’t know all the details. We would very much like to bury him in Belarus, but we’re not sure how real­is­tic that is,” wrote his sis­ter Olga Klask­ouskaya.

In 2010, dressed in a police uni­form, he took part in a protest against the fal­si­fi­ca­tion of elec­tion results. A pho­to from that protest—Aliaksandr in uni­form stand­ing face-to-face with riot police — became the one of icon­ic images of the “Ploshcha 2010” move­ment.

He was arrest­ed on the night of Decem­ber 21, 2010, beat­en, and charged with orga­niz­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in mass riots. On May 26, 2011, he was sen­tenced to 5 years in a high-secu­ri­ty prison. He served his sen­tence in Shklov Penal Colony No. 17. He was released under a “par­don”, although he had refused to write a clemen­cy peti­tion to Lukashenko. He was rec­og­nized as a polit­i­cal pris­on­er.

After the esca­la­tion of repres­sion in 2020, Ali­ak­san­dr and his fam­i­ly were forced to go into hid­ing abroad. In 2024, he emi­grat­ed to the Unit­ed States with his wife and three chil­dren.

On June 4, 2025, Ali­ak­san­dr sud­den­ly passed away, pre­sum­ably from a heart attack—he was found uncon­scious by neigh­bours. The final cause of death will be deter­mined by an autop­sy. He was 46 years old.

We are launch­ing this fundrais­er at the request of Aliaksandr’s fam­i­ly to cov­er the costs of repa­tri­at­ing his body to Belarus and oth­er funer­al-relat­ed expens­es.

Help the Klaskovsky family

Fundraising Goal: €5000

€2500 – body trans­porta­tion from the U.S. to Poland
€1500 – body trans­porta­tion from Poland to Belarus
€600 – doc­u­men­ta­tion and paper­work
€400 – funer­al arrange­ments