Lukashenko won’t release political prisoners as he promised Trump
22 August 23:58
Self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has admitted that he will not fulfill his promise to US President Donald Trump to release political prisoners. Instead, he called the prisoners “bandits.” This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to the Belarusian state agency BELTA.
Lukashenka said that there are no political prisoners in Belarus. The self-proclaimed head of state calls those imprisoned by his regime “bandits.”
“Do you want one and a half or two thousand (as they count)? Take them to your place, take them there. Do you expect that we will release the bandits who burned and blew up, and they will recognize this… We will release them, and they will wage war against us again?” he said.
Lukashenko also lied, saying that his society would not support him in this. That is, the dictator does not plan to release prisoners for “political” articles.
On August 15, before meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Trump had a telephone conversation with Lukashenko. Among other things, they discussed the release of political prisoners and more.
According to Trump, Lukashenko allegedly promised to release 1,300 political prisoners. According to the Belarusian opposition and human rights activists, this is the number of people currently held in the dungeons of Lukashenka’s regime.
