Lukashenko pardons 16 more after Kellogg visit
Photo: Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus (Getty Images)
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 16 people, including so-called extremists, after a visit by the special envoy of the President of the United States of America, Keith Kellogg, according to the website of the President of Belarus.
The names of the pardoned have not been disclosed, but these are eight women and eight men, including:
- three are over 50;
- two have chronic diseases;
- one has a disability;
- nine are minor children.
According to Viasna, since the beginning of the year, 14 waves of pardons have already taken place in Belarus, resulting in the release of 330 people.
Kellogg meets Lukashenko
Kellogg visited Minsk on June 21 to talk with Lukashenko. According to the US special envoy, the meeting discussed a full-scale war in Ukraine.
Amid the visit of the US special envoy to Belarus, 14 political prisoners were released from jail, including Sergei Tikhanovsky, the husband of Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya.
Today, on July 2, Lukashenko said that Kellogg had promised him to work on limiting Ukraine's strikes on Russia, but the latter later denied it.
