After more than 600 days of denied visits, calls and correspondence, the jailed Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has been allowed to see her father in prison.
A photo, published on social media, shows the activist in what appears to be a prison housecoat hugging her father.
On her face is the smile she became famous for as one of the leaders of a wave of giant protests in 2020 that put the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko under unprecedented pressure.
It survived by responding with mass arrests, police beatings and torture - all thoroughly documented, but still flatly denied by officials.
