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The UK dual citizen, Julia Vinner, a British diplomatic wife, was released from prison by Belarus as part of a wider release with the United States.

She got a long sentence in prison last month after she was arrested on the border when she entered Belarus in March 2024.

“It is a wonderful news that a British citizen has been brought home,” said UK Minister of Europe, Stephen Duti.

Fifty two prisoners were released from Belarus on Thursday as part of an agreement between US President Donald Trump and authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In exchange for the release of political prisoners, the United States said it would reduce some sanctions on Belarusian Blavia, allowing the carrier to buy spare parts for their aircraft.

Stephen Dotti described the release as a “great penetration” and thanked the United States for “great diplomatic efforts to secure this result.”

Among the prisoners who were released were union leaders, journalists and activists, but more than 1,000 political prisoners are still in prison in Belarus.

Julia Winner previously worked at the British Embassy in Minsk before marrying British diplomat Martin Winner, according to the Human Rights Charts 97.

Other rights group, Spring 96, Acknowledging Mrs. Weinner as a political prisoner Those who were imprisoned in a criminal colony.

Although the reason for accusing Belarus has never been explained, she was accused under the two articles of the criminal law, for active participation in the procedures that flagrantly violating the public order and assistance to extremist activity.

All opposition was canceled by the Belarusian authoritarian leader Lukashenko, 71, who has been in power since 1994.

He described the release of 52 prisoners as a human gesture, after he met the Donald Trump’s special envoy John Ko in the capital Minsk on Thursday.

At a press conference on Friday, the leader of opposition to Belarus thanked the US president, Tikhanovskaya, for securing the release of prisoners.

About 1,300 political prisoners are still in prison in Belarus, but Tikhanovskaya said that the release of 52 prisoners on Thursday was a step in the right direction.

“What happened yesterday was not real freedom.” “It was forced deportation.”

The opposition leader added that she was “very concerned about the fate of Mikola Stattivic” – the veteran defector who refused to leave Belarus yesterday and cross into Lithuania.

Tikhanovskaya yesterday published online photos showing that it shows the 69 -year -old STATKEVICH, sitting on the ground of any man on the border.

Stativic stood against Lukashenko in the 2010 presidential election and was in prison for five years when he was released.

Tikhanovskaya said his place is now unknown, but added, “Everyone who is released is entitled to stay either to stay or leave.”

Rabie 96 said that Mr. Stattivic “wants to be with his people under any circumstances,” and he adds, “He will leave only when Belarus is free of Lukashenko.”

Lukashenko praised the United States for taking a “very constructive position on the so -called political prisoners,” according to the Belarusian state -owned news agency.

“We do not need political prisoners or any other prisoners,” he said.

Many of those who were still detention were arrested during a brutal campaign in 2020, when protests against presidential elections that were widely convicted of being false.

Lukashenko has long referred to Vladimir Putin as his “older brother” and helped him by the Russian leader during the 2020 protests.

In February 2022, Putin used the Belarusian lands to launch a large -scale invasion of Ukraine, and on Friday the two countries began five days of the main joint military exercises.

NATO members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, all of which share the border with Belarus, at maximum alert due to “Zapad-2025” training. Poland closed its borders with Bearus and Latvia closed part of the airspace.