BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

17/08/2008

Jailed Belarusian opposition leader freed

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 Europe."

Source:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/function/0,,12215_cid_3570237,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

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