BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

06/04/2006

Polish diplomat in Belarus dies in hospital

Poland's vice consul in the Belarusian city of Grodno Ryszard Badon-Lehr has died in hospital in Bialystok. He was transported from a Grodno hospital back to Poland last week with a suspected brain tumor, after being found unconscious in his apartment. Despite surgery he never regained consciousness.

The prosecutor's office in Bialystok is conducting an investigation into an alleged beating of Ryszard Badon-Lehr in Belarus. Prosecutor Janusz Kordulski has confirmed the Polish diplomat had burns in the kidney area suggesting the use of an electric paralyser.

Source:

http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=35105&j=2

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