Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced on Sunday that it will release an American who was imprisoned in Belarus while controversy on the ongoing elections in Belarus.
Rubio praised Donald Trump's leadership and posted to X, saying, “Belarus has released the innocent American Anastasia Nufer under the Joe Biden administration!”
“Our team has done a great job in this case,” said Rubio, the Ministry of State's Eastern Europe, policy and regional issues.
Rubio, who served as a member of the Senate Diplomatic Committee for 14 years until he became the Secretary of State of Trump last week, wrote “peace by strength.”
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Marco Rubio in the oath ceremony on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (Oliver contrast/Sipa/Bloomberg, via Getty Image)
Some social media users were amazed that they did not know that the Americans were being imprisoned in Belarus during the former President Joe Biden, so further information on Noufar and her release was immediately. It was not announced.
On the other hand, Belarus has a national election on Sunday. President Alexander Lukashenko, a Russian leader of Putin, is expected to be a 30 -year administration and another term of term.
Lukashenko's more serious opposition, although his relentless repression of opposition and freedom of speech, many of them have been imprisoned or expelled abroad, but this election is called a fake election. ――It is the same as the previous election in 2020, which caused a few months of protesting as a precedent in national history. A country with a population of 9 million.
According to the AP communication, more than 65,000 people were arrested in the crackdown, thousands were beaten, and blamed and sanctions were brought by western countries.
The country contains nearly 1,300 politicians, including the founder of the Viasuna Human Rights Center and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Ares Bierian Teki.
Since July, President Lukashenko has given more than 250 amnesty. At the same time, the authorities have arrested hundreds of more people in a forced investigation of relatives and friends of political offenses, trying to eradicate opposition.
On January 21, 2025, President Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus, visits the Minsk Motor Factory in Minsk, Belarus. (President Belarus Reported Bureau, via AP, file)
According to Viasuna, the authorities detained 188 last month. According to the AP communication, the authority of the active and anti -government organizations had been called by the police and had been forced to sign a document saying that they were warned not to participate in unpropined demonstrations.
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After challenging the President in 2020, the opposition leader Sviatrana Chihanoskaya, who was exile from Belarus, told AP communication that Sunday election was a “meaningless farce drama, Lukashenko ceremony”. Ta.
Volunteers should mark all the people listed in the ballot, and the leaders of the world are in the country where “all independent media and opposition parties are destroyed and prison is filled with political criminals”. She said she shouldn't admit the results.
“As the voting with no choice approaches, the crackdown has become more brutal, but Lukashenko is still behaving as if hundreds of thousands of people are still standing outside the palace,” she said. 。
The European Parliament called for the European Union to refuse election results. EU's top diplomat Kaja Crow criticized the voting as “explicit insults for democracy.”
On January 26, 2025, before the Belarusian march began in Warsaw, Poland, Belarushi's exile, Belarushi -exile, Sviatrana Chihanuskaya, will stop during a press conference. (Agencja wybolcza.pl/robert kowalewski, via Reuters)
Immediately after the voting in Minsk on Sunday, Lukashenko told reporters that he had not demanded the EU or approval.
“The most important thing for me is that the Belarus people recognize these elections and end them as peaceful as they began.”
The media free monitoring organization, the reporter without borders, has filed a lawsuit in Lukashenko to the International Court of Lukashenko over Lukashenko's repression of 397 journalists since 2020. According to the newspaper, 43 people have been imprisoned in prison.
In 1994, two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lukashenko was appointed president and won the nickname of the “Europe's last dictator.” His rule of Tekken was strong with subsidies and political support from Russia, a close alliance.
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In 2022, he allowed Russia to use his own territory to invade Ukraine, and has accepted some Russian tactical nuclear weapons, but is still election activities with “peace and safety”. He argued that he saved Belarus from being involved in the war.
Lukashenko said, “Belarusic -like dictatorship is better than democracy like Ukraine.”
AP communication contributed to this report.
