Belarus opposition leader, 13 others freed from jail

Media, Belarus, USA’s private ambassador’s visit to Ukraine Keith Kellogg’s private ambassador published 14 political prisoners.

His wife Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, in an article in the social media site X, was among the people who were released by the opposition leader Siyarhei Tsikhanouski.

A court in Belarus sentenced Tsikhanouski to 18 years in 2021, after he was arrested in an attempt to run against the President of Alexander Lukashenko.

Tsikhanouski is in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, his wife’s spokesman.

Sözcü, a total of 14 prisoners were released, he added.

“We’re not over,” Tsikhanouskaya said, 1,150 prisoners wanted to be released.

His wife’s team said that a blogger and activist Tsikhanouski, a blogger and activist who was imprisoned in 2020, came to Lithuania with 13 other political prisoners.

A video published in his wife’s official telegraph account showed that Tsikhanouski went down to a white minibus with a shaved head and a wide smile.

He drew Tsikhanouskaya to embrace his supporters while applauding.

Tsikhanouskaya told journalists, “My husband is Özgür. It is difficult to define the joy in my heart.” He said.

According to reports, the leading journalist Igor Karfay was also released on Saturday.

The US ambassador Kellogg met with authoritarian Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday to discuss a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine and to discuss bilateral relations between the United States and Belarus.

In Belarus’s 2020 elections, Lukashenko once again declared the winner and triggered unprecedented protests in the country.

Many of them saw Tikhanovskaya as the real winner of the ballot of the vote in the former Soviet Republic.

After the election, the neighbor fled to exile in Lithuania.

With DPA and AP