Lukashenko liberates the leader of the Belarusian opposition after the Trump envoy interviewed

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The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko released the opposition leader Sergei Tskhanuski and more than ten prisoners and other political journalists in a surprising step in which Doland Trump’s special envoy mediated.

The Zikhanski’s liberation decision, who has been imprisoned since Lukashenko challenges the presidency in 2020, follows a meeting on Saturday between the Belarusian leader and Keith Keel, Trump’s private envoy to Ukraine.

“It is difficult to describe joy in my heart,” said the wife of Zikhanski. sviatlana tsikhanouskayaWho intervened to run for the elections instead of her husband after his imprisonment and helped lead the major protests against Lukashenko.

“We have not finished. 1150 political prisoners are still behind bars. Everyone must be released,” she added, after he thanked the American president and European allies.

The 14 prisoner who was released on Saturday was brought to Lithuania, the neighboring Baltic state, where journalists photographed Tskhanoskaya embracing her husband smiling with a smile from a small bus.

A spokesman for the Lithuanian Prime Minister said that the prisoners were released by Lukashenko after an agreement with Kelog. Among them are five Belarus, three columns, two of the others, and the citizens of Japan, Sweden and Estonia.

Tskhanski was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2021. A year ago, he and other candidates sought to score against Lukashenko, the first and only president in the country since 1994.

Three women leading the election campaign after his arrest, with Tskhanoskaya joined by Veronica Tsipcalo, the wife of another forbidden candidate, Maria Kulusnikova.

Lukashenko Victory claimed But the opposition competed for the result, noting that the vote had been forged and sparked a wave of protests that rocked the country for several months.

Thousands are imprisoned, including Colinnikova. She is still imprisoned, as well as Nobel Prize Prize winner Piece Biaski, opposition leader Victor Babarico and many others.

IHAR KARNEI, a former journalist from Liberty Free Radio/Liberty Radio worked with the exit port for two decades and was arrested in 2023, and was released, according to the station.

“We are very grateful to President Trump to secure him to release this brave journalist, who suffered at the hands of the Belarusian authorities,” said Stephen Kabous, CEO of the media.