In Belarus, Dmitriy Schletgauer, a native of Russia, has died while serving a 12-year sentence for espionage and facilitating extremist activities. He became the seventh political dissident to die in prison since the regime of Alexander Lukashenko launched severe and extensive crackdowns on the opposition in 2020, reports the Belarusian Human Rights Center Viasna. According to Viasna, whose Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder Ales Bialiatski is himself imprisoned, Belarusian authorities have refused to disclose the cause of Schletgauer’s death, which occurred on October 11 but was only recently …