Belarus opposition leader Syarhei Tsikhanouski and 13 other prisoners have been released from jail and are now free in Lithuania, the neighbouring country’s government said.
The release was brokered by U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg, a spokesperson for Lithuania’s prime minister said.
Kellogg earlier met with Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, the country’s state news agency Belta said.
Tsikhanouski’s wife Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in a post on social media service X thanked U.S. President Donald Trump as well as Kellogg and others for their efforts to secure her husband’s release.
“We’re not done,” Tsikhanouskaya wrote on her X account, calling for the release of a further 1,150 prisoners.
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