Opponent Lukashenko is pardoned and released
Former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, sentenced to five years in a colony of reinforced regime for organizing riots in Minsk in December 2010, was released. It is reported by Interfax . In the case of the “riots”, in addition to Sannikov, his wife, a Novaya Gazeta journalist Irina Khalip, was held on May 16, she was sentenced to two years in prison with a two -year postponement . The same sentence touched the rival Lukashenko in the 2010 election, the poet Vladimir Neklyaev .