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Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tohanovskaya’s husband was unexpectedly released from prison in Belarus with other political prisoners.
Sergey Tikhanovsky was relocated to Lithuania and meets again with his wife in the capital Vilnius.
The former RFE journalist Ihar Karnei is understood that at least 10 prisoners are generally released.
Suditional Issue US Special Ambassador Keith Kellogg visited Minsk on Saturday and held a meeting with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Images shared by Thanovskaya representatives, the images, smiles and hugs and seem to lose a lot of weight in the guardianship of Tahhanovsky.
“My wife … it’s free! It’s hard to describe the joy in my heart,” he said.
Thanking the Donald Trump, Kellogg and “all European allies,” added it for his efforts to release his husband: “Finish. 1150 political prisoners are behind the bars. All must be released.”
Other released prisoners include five Belarusian citizens and Japanese, Polish and Swedish citizens, according to the office of Tikısanovskaya. A statement in the X said that Lithuanian Foreign Minister cared for 14 political prisoners in Lithuania.
Maria Kolesnikova, one of the most famous opposition leaders in prison after 2020, was still in prison, and his sister confirmed.
Tohanovskaya, his husband, former blogger and presidential candidate Tikhanovsky, in August 2020, stopped in August 2020. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2021.
His wife escaped in his place and won the surveys that Lukashenko had to expand by their supporters, but he was was forced to exile with their children a day after voting.
He has been the restoration of efforts against Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994.
Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have been expected to leave their countries since the cruel raid against the protests of the widespread opposition in 2020.
According to human rights group viasna, tens of thousands of people were arrested in the last five years.
