The human rights activist committed suicide in protest against the sentence
Yana Polyakova, human rights activist. Photo korrespondent.net In the city of Soligorsk, the Minsk Region of Belarus on Monday, human rights activist Yana Polyakova took place on Monday. She committed suicide on Saturday, disagreing with the decision of the City Court of Soligorsk, who sentenced her to two and a half years in a penal colony. According to Kommersant, the human rights activist was convicted of a “false denunciation”.