The leader of the Belarusian opposition Mikalai Statkevič, who refused a week ago, the opportunity to leave after being released from prison to exile, is again in prison in Belarus. Referring to a trusted source, our Niva’s news website informed this, TASR writes.
They were released from a prison last Thursday
Last Thursday was among 52 citizens of Belarus and Western countries, who were released from Belarusian prisons. Unlike them, however, he did not take advantage of the opportunity to go into exile and decided to stay in Belarus. The other released were deported to Lithuania.
The website of our Niva, referring to a “reliable source”, informed that the estate from the Belarusian-Lithuanian border was transferred to the penal colony in Hlyboka in the Vice-Vice region.
However, the station’s wife Maryne Adamovič, who in the meantime, traveled there, refused to confirm the management of the prison camp whether her husband is in this prison. The authorities promised to “provide a written answer within 15 days”.
The estate has been serving a 14-year sentence for allegations of alleged extremism
Until September 11 – The day when 52 Belarusian political prisoners were released, – there were no news about the 69 -year -old farm.
The Statečvič on Wednesday in his public performance was also mentioned by the local President Alexander Lukashenko. He revived how a farm after being released from prison, where he served a 14-year sentence for accusations of extremism, refused to go into exile in the neutral zone on the border of Belarus with Lithuania. Lukashenko, however, did not say exactly where the estate is currently. He only stated that political prisoners would be dismissed “gradually and calmly”.
At present, nearly 1,200 officially recognized political prisoners are in Belarus, but their actual number is higher, the Euronews news website wrote over the past weekend.
The estate is popular with the struggle for freedom and democracy popular with a part of Belarusian society
The Statevic, former chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (BSDP, also known as Narodnaja Hramada), ran in 2010 in the presidential election in Belarus against President Lukashenko.
In the following years, the estate was repeatedly detained and taken into custody. In 2021 he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for “organizing mass unrest”.
Thanks to its struggle for freedom and democracy, Mikalaj Statkevič has great popularity with a part of the Belarusian society. As a former army Lieutenant colonel, he allegedly has supported support among the army members, where he was known as a respected officer, added Euronews.
