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OR Belarus released 52 prisoners who have now passed LithuaniaAs the president of the country announced, Dzhitan NausentField
On an extraordinary press conference Thursday, Nausena confirmed that the Minister of Foreign Kestutis Budris He received a team on the border. Of the 14 liberated foreigners, six were LithuaniansWhile others came from France, Germany, Poland and Great BritainAccording to the press service of his presidency BelarusField
This step occurred a month after the contact of the former president by phone USA, Donald TrumpWith the authoritarian leader of Belarus Aliaxandr LukashenkoWhere Trump asked to release more prisoners.
In its post on the platform X, Nausena Thanked him Trump To support it, describing the release of 52 prisoners as “very important”. He noted that these people left behind the “prickly wire, windows with railings and constant fear”.
“More than 1000 political prisoners are still in prisons of Belarus, and we cannot stop until they see freedom!”The president added LithuaniaField
A Lukashenkoclose ally of his president Russia, Vladimir PutinIt seems to be trying to improve relations with USA Through the release of prisoners.
TO July 2024The authorities of Belarus had issued about 300 people, including dissident SiarheiThe spouse of the exiled opposition leader Sviatlan ClaunofHis field was allowed to leave the country JuneTogether with another 13 people, shortly after a rare visit of a high -ranking official USA In Belarus.
OR BelarusThe country around 9.5 million inhabitantsManaging Lukashenko More than three decades. After the alleged fraud in the presidential election August 2020The country survived the largest demonstrations in its history, when thousands of protesters were arrested during repression.
To him January, Lukashenko won another controversial election victory, expanding its sovereignty for The seventh semesterField
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