Mikalai Statkevich And 51 Political Prisoners Have Been Released

• 11.09.2025, 14:22

(Updated) The full list appears.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called an emergency press conference on Thursday to announce that the Belarusian regime had released 52 political prisoners, LRT reported.

Later, human rights activists published a full list of released political prisoners:

Nikolai Statkevich;

Vladimir Matskevich;

Gennady Fedynich;

Alexandr Yaroshuk;

Nikolai Dedok;

Dmitry Kuchuk;

Dmitry Dashkevich;

Evgeny Afnagel;

Pavel Vinogradov;

Maksim Vinyarsky;

Andrei Voynich;

Sergei Sparish;

Galina Derbysh;

Igor Losik;

Pavel Mozheiko;

Alexander Mantsevich;

Elena Timoshchuk;

Irina Slavnikova;

Larisa Shchiryakova;

Pavel Podobed;

Vyacheslav Lazarev;

Evgeny Merkis;

Nikolai Hilo;

Ilya Dubsky;

Andriy Krylov;

Dmitry Kozlov;

Pavel Nikitenko;

Vitaly Bondaruk;

Yakov Shafarenko;

Evgeny Semyonov;

Gleb Gladkovsky;

Svyatoslav Shubich;

Andrey Stepankov;

Andrey Khveskoev;

Alexei Silenko;

Igor Tepteev;

Viktor Vlasenko;

Rizapur Timur Nabi Oglu.

Foreign citizens:

Julia Fenner (United Kingdom);

Elene Ramanauskienė (Lithuania);

Eduardas Černiatevas (Lithuania);

Dmitry Kovalchuk (Lithuania);

Tomas Rimkus (Lithuania);

Danuta Sokolawska (Lithuania);

Hennady Richter (Lithuania);

Ivas Šumas (Latvia);

Emils Asars (Latvia);

Krzysztof Zaniewicz (Poland);

Ezutek Tomasz Jacek (Poland);

Karsten Voss (Germany);

Waldemar Schmidt (Germany);

Manuel Rossander (France).

The released political prisoners are now in Lithuania.

On September 11, Alexander Lukashenko met with Deputy Special Representative of the U.S. President John Cole. Also, Chris Smith, deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state for Europe, came to Minsk. Later it became known about the removal of sanctions from Belavia.