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Belarusian authorities stated Thursday that they freed an opposition figure and naturalized United States citizen jailed for allegedly
attempting to seize power from President Alexander Lukashenko.Yuras Zyankovich, 47, was arrested in April 2021 throughout a crackdown on
opposition activists protesting against Lukashenkos rule.He was sentenced to 11 years in prison for organizing a conspiracy to take power
by unconstitutional ways, a charge rights groups stated was linked to his opposition work.Belarusian police authorities arrested 10s of
countless individuals in the wake of the 2020 elections that saw Lukashenko return to power
Numerous them were subjected to physical abuse while in police custody.Zyankovich, a Minsk-born politician who later became a naturalized
United States resident, was a popular member of the now-banned Belarusian Popular Front party, which is opposed to Lukashenko
At the request of the United States governmental administration, United States person Yuras Zyankovich has actually been released,
Lukashenkos press secretary informed the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio validated on
Wednesday that Belarus had launched a wrongfully apprehended United States person, without naming him.There are at least 1,200 political
detainees still behind bars in Belarusian prisons, according to the human rights monitor Viasna.A Message from The Moscow Times: Dear
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