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Veteran Belarus Dissident Who Refused Exile Released
- On Thursday, Belarus released veteran opposition politician Mikola Statkevich, exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya announced and shared a photo of him with his wife.
- The 2025 prisoner swap left Statkevich at Lithuania's border after a US-brokered deal; he was among 52 prisoners taken in September 2025 but refused to cross into Lithuania.
- Statkevich's wife, Marina Adamovich, said he suffered a stroke in custody that impaired his speech and `He is at home, recovering`.
- Viasna human rights group notes more than 1,000 political prisoners remain in Belarus, and the 2025 swap included a US pledge to relax some sanctions on Belavia.
- As a long-standing opponent who ran against Alexander Lukashenko in 2010, Statkevich was arrested in May 2020 and sentenced in 2021 to 14 years for `organising riots`.
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The opponent of the Belarusian leader and former presidential candidate Mikalay Statkevich is free. He recovers from a stroke, informs his wife.
As one of the most famous Belarusian oppositionists, he was imprisoned in a penal colony. Nikolay Statkevich is now said to be free again.
Belarusian political prisoner Nikolai Statkevich has been released, the Viasna human rights center reported, citing his wife, Marina Adamovich. According to his wife, Statkevich suffered a stroke and is currently recovering, but continues to struggle with speech problems. Nikolai Statkevich has been a member of the Belarusian opposition since the 1990s. He ran in the 2010 presidential election, but was subsequently sentenced to six years in pris…
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