Nikolai Statkevich - At Large In Minsk

• 19.02.2026, 18:29

(Updated) He suffered a stroke.

The wife of Belarusian opposition leader Nikolai Statkevich Marina Adamovich reported in Facebook that the political prisoner was released. The politician suffered a stroke and has speech problems.

"Dear friends, Nikolai is home! He had a stroke. Now he is recovering. So far there are problems with speech. Otherwise, everything is normal. Everything will be fine," writes Marina Adamovich.

We will remind, September 11, Lukashenko's regime released and expelled 52 prisoners. Nikolai Statkevich was the only one of this group who did not cross the border between Belarus and Lithuania. For some time, the politician could be seen on the images from the cameras at the border, but then he was taken away by masked men in an unknown direction. For a long time it was unknown where he was.

In 2021, Nikolai Statkevich was sentenced to 14 years in a special regime colony for organizing "mass riots."

Since the beginning of July 2022, since Nikolai Statkevich started serving his sentence in Gluboka colony, the leader of the Belarusian opposition was kept in the most severe conditions: he was kept in solitary confinement in dangerous conditions. It became known that Nikolai Statkevich contracted COVID-19 several times in prison.