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Sergei Tikhanovsky, the husband of Belarusian opposition leader, called the President Donald Trump to say “just the word” and released all political prisoners in Belarus.
The opposition activist released unexpectedly on Saturday and his wife joined Lithuanian. They also released thirteen political prisoners and forced into exile.
Movement The US Envoy Keith Kellogg went to the City of Minsk, Belarusian, and met the authoritarian leader in Alexander Lukashenko.
It was a higher American visit to many years.
In an emotional press conference, Tikhanovsky broke in tears, when he described five years in solo incommunicado detention and asked the freedom of more than 1,000 political prisoners behind the bars.
2020. He was arrested in this summer election against Lukashenko planned to attend President.
He jailed for 18 years in 2021 when the court had a mass of protest against Lukashenko, among some politically motivated positions.
As a prominent opposition figure, Tikhanovsky said as described as “sharp as possible regimes”, cut from all contacts with the external world.
“You don’t even get the letter, it’s not the only call. I couldn’t recognize with a priest for five years. No call, no lawyer, he said,” he said.
Then he started making rumors.
“It’s a nightmare,” he said. “You ask about torture. Isn’t it torture? The killers get TV in prison, they have everything. But I didn’t even get the letters.”
He has barely spoken to anyone, but the patron saint has been fighting for years in years and Sunday sometimes.
“How can they do that? You (regimes) think of criminals. But we have rights,” he said.
“It’s inhuman. It’s a nightmare. They have to stop it. We need to get people out.”
Called the US president for more help.
“Trump has such powers and such opportunities, with a single word that all political prisoners could be released. I ask him to say that word,” he added.
His wife, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, deleted his tears while he spoke. He called him earlier his “personal hero”.
He also described his daughter how to recognize his father, because he changed so much in prison and lost a lot of weight.
Lurashenko said that he received only one thing to the US Administration, in exchange for the liberation of prisoners on Saturday – Visit to the US Envoy Kellogg.
It can be submitted as political insulation due to the repression of the internal disagreement and the Russian scale of Ukrainian.
But Tikhanovsky said that Belarus wants to remove the US penalties.
Before his arrest, Tikhanovsky was a colorful figure that had a great Belarus in social media.
Video blogers used to call people “to stop cockroaches” to call people, about Lukashenko, and visit the country to meet people in the town’s squares and towns.
After arresting in 2020, his wife went to the President in the August election.
When Lukashenk won another plot, his supporters flooded the streets in the greatest protests in Belarus.
They were compassionate, and they were forced to escape from the country Tikhanovskaya.
“The opposition leader is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, my wife, and I didn’t claim anything,” Tikhanovsky shed on Sunday, who did not take the leadership of the Belarusian opposition abroad.
Earlier, he turned on a challenge fist.
“I mean to all Belarus: If you were waiting for a symbol, this is,” said Lukashenko standing.
He said he did anything to regret, despite the resulting treatment.
But he saved his life saved his life, as he did not last behind his whole sentence in such conditions.
Hundreds of thousands of Belarus have left their country since its a rough crack against the spread of spread protests in 2020.
Thousands of thousands of people have been arrested in the country for the last five years for political reasons, according to the Viasna of Human Rights.
