(21 Jun 2025)
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Vilnius, Lithuania – 21 June 2025
1. Various of diplomatic vehicles driving
2. Pan of white van with freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski inside
3. Wide of vehicle driving
3. Close of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondent Ihar Karnei and RFE/RL CEO Steve Capus inside taxi
4. Wide of taxi leaving
STORYLINE:
Belarus has freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, following a rare visit by a senior U.S. official Saturday.
Tsikhanouski, a popular blogger and activist who was jailed in 2020, arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, alongside 13 other political prisoners.
Released alongside Tsikhanouski was longtime Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty correspondent Ihar Karnei, the U.S. government-funded broadcaster confirmed.
Karnei, who had also worked with prominent Belarusian and Russian newspapers, had been serving a three-year service on extremism charges he rejected as a sham.
The release came just hours after Belarusian authorities announced that President Alexander Lukashenko met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, in Minsk.
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