"Ihar is an extremely courageous person, but even he cried when he found out that his wife Daria was behind bars," said

.

- Viktor Dmitrievich is doing well, but behind bars he is actually under an information blockade.

Almost no news reaches him, and other slaves are not allowed to communicate with him."

Freedom journalist, political prisoner

has been behind bars since June 25, 2020, in December 2021 he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.

In October 2022, the Belarusian authorities arrested Igor's wife Daria, who was accused of giving an interview about Igor to the Belsat TV channel.

In February 2023, Losik was fined in the Novopolotsk colony, for which the prisoner was canceled a long-term meeting with his parents.

It was supposed to take place at the end of March.

At the beginning of April, Ihar Losik was imprisoned for the second time in a row.

Relatives have not received letters from the police prisoner for 60 days.

Criminal prosecution of Igor and Daria Losikov

Criminal proceedings were instituted against the administrator of the "RB Brain" community and the freelance consultant of Radio Svaboda Ihar Losik according to Part 1 of Art.

342 of the Criminal Code ("preparation for violation of public order") and Part 2 of Art.

293 ("preparation for participation in mass riots").

Losik was detained on June 25, 2020 after a house search in Baranavichy.

At that time, 167,000 people were subscribed to his Telegram channel "RB Brain".

Ihar Losik actively covered the events of the presidential elections of Belarus.

Human rights activists recognized him as a political prisoner.

On December 15, after the second indictment, Ihar Losik announced a protest hunger strike and held it until January 25.

On March 11, 2021, Losik was charged with a new charge.

As a sign of protest, Igor injured his wrist in front of the lawyer and the investigator, and also announced a dry hunger strike.

For this, Losik was placed in the cell of Zhodzin remand prison.

He stayed there for five days, four of which he was on a dry hunger strike.

On December 14, 2021, in the pre-trial detention center-3 building in Gomli, judge

sentenced 6 defendants:

• Ihar Losik

  was sentenced to 15 years in prison,

• Artem Sakav

  - 16 years old,

• Mykola Statkevich

  - 14 years old,

• Dmitriy Popov

  - 16 years old,

• Serhiy Tsikhanovsky

  - 18 years old,

• Vladimir Tsyganovich

  - 15 years of imprisonment.

, the wife of Igor Losik,

was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony (according to Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code) for an interview about her husband, in which, according to the indictment, she "positioned herself as the wife of a political prisoner."

Daria Losik was sentenced on January 19, 2023 by the judge of the Brest Regional Court