Polit­i­cal pris­on­er Vat­slau Aresh­ka marked his fourth birth­day behind bars on Jan­u­ary 18, turn­ing 71. Human rights defend­ers have includ­ed him on the list of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers with extreme­ly vul­ner­a­ble health con­di­tions — Aresh­ka has lost almost all of his vision while impris­oned. Ali­ak­san­dr Mant­se­vich, edi­tor of Rehi­hanal­na­ja Haze­ta and a for­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er released … Con­tin­ue read­ing Impris­oned jour­nal­ist Vat­slau Aresh­ka goes near­ly blind in deten­tion