The daughter of a leading Belarusian opposition figure says her father has been released from prison.
Alexander Kozulin was arrested in 2006 during a protest challenging the re-election of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko and later sentenced to 5 1/2 years in a high-security prison. Washington welcomed the move as a positive step towards improving the relationship between the West and Belarus. In 2005 US President George W. Bush described Belarus as "the last remaining dictatorship in Belarus releases key opposition figure ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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