BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

20/11/2008

US lawyer in Belarus prison hospital

MINSK, Belarus (AP) - The lawyer for an American citizen imprisoned in Belarus says his client has been hospitalized.

Emanuel Zeltser is an attorney who was jailed in the capital Minsk after his March arrest on a commercial espionage charge his lawyers call politically motivated. He was sentenced to three years in prison in August and lost an appeal.

Defense attorney Dmitry Goryachko said Monday that Zeltser was placed in a prison hospital after arriving at a penal colony in eastern Belarus to serve his sentence.

Zeltser has diabetes, and Goryachko said he is being denied medicine.

The U.S. has called for his release on humanitarian grounds. It says freeing him would help the authoritarian government improve ties with the U.S.

Source:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8045863

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