Among the released is the husband of the Leader of the Belarusian opposition of the light of Cichanouska – Siarhiej Cichanuski. “My husband Siarhiej is free! It is really difficult to describe the joy I feel in my heart,” wrote the Belarusian oppositionist on the portal X.
“We have not finished. 1150 political prisoners remain behind bars. Everyone must be released,” she added.
According to Reuters, citing the spokesman for the Lithuanian government, Among the 14 released people there are five Belarusians, three Poles, two Japanese, two Latvians, Estonian and Swede.
More than two years in Andrzej Poczobut prison
One of the political prisoners in Belarus is Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist, publicist and blogger associated with Grodno, an activist of the Polish minority and opposition in Belarus.
The beginning of the Poczobut began on January 16, 2023. The District Court in Grodno on February 8, 2023, he sentenced Andrzej Postal to eight years in prison with high rigor (imprisonment in a criminal colony). In August 2023 he was punished with a six -month stay in a carcere.
“Pressure for Belarus must be continued until all political prisoners are released,” said Sweden Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Among the Swedish citizen, 68-year-old Halina Krasnjanska is among the released.
