Maryna Adamovich: Old cats recognized their owner even after five years
“He still speaks poorly, but he will recover quickly, I have no doubt!” — told Novaya Gazeta Europa by phone, the wife of Mikalai Statkevich.
“He's already doing it better than even an hour ago!”
At home, besides Maryna, Mikalai was awaited by a somewhat enlarged, mischievous pack of dogs and cats.
“Our old cats recognized their owner even after five years,” — said Maryna.
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Mikalai Statkevich's release became known yesterday when his photos appeared at home in Minsk.
The presidential candidate in the 2010 elections was detained on May 31, 2020, when he was going to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's rally in Kamarouka.
On December 14, 2021, at a closed trial in Homel, he was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment in a special regime colony on charges of organizing mass riots. Other well-known opponents of the authorities were also sentenced along with him. He served his sentence in a colony in Hlybokaye, and in recent years was held incommunicado.
In 2020, he received the Andrei Sakharov Prize.
On September 11, 2025, Statkevich was unexpectedly released along with 51 other political prisoners, and they wanted to forcibly deport him to Lithuania. Statkevich, however, refused to cross the border and remained on the territory of Belarus. After Lukashenka's security forces took him, nothing was known about his fate.
On January 21, he suffered a stroke in the colony.
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