Maryna Adamovich Told About The State Of Health Of Nikolai Statkevich
- 20.02.2026, 15:43
Belarusian opposition leader was in intensive care for three weeks.
Marina Adamovich, wife of the Belarusian opposition leader Nikolai Statkevich, who suffered a stroke and was released on February 19, told "Novaya Gazeta Europe" about her husband's condition.
- He still speaks poorly, but he will recover soon, I have no doubt! He is already doing better than even an hour ago! - Marina Adamovich said by phone about her husband.
She said that all this time Nikolai Statkevich was in the same colony in Hlubokoe, from which he was taken in September:
- Nikolai said that he was taken from the colony with a bag on his head, and on the way back, from the border to the colony, with the same bag on his head and ties on his hands. I wrote there, to the colony. I went there three times in those months. And no one said anything to me, no one gave me a single answer to my appeals. But he was there all the time. And Nikolai had a stroke on January 21, and he was taken to Minsk the same evening. (Nikolai's voice is heard in the background at this time. Unintelligible, but Marina understands. - Author's note). Nikolai says that doctors really did everything possible to save his life: three weeks of resuscitation, feeding through a tube.
We recall that in the evening on February 19, it became known that political prisoner Nikolai Statkevich was released. The opposition leader, according to his wife Marina Adamovich, had a stroke and is now recovering.
September 11, Lukashenko's regime released and expelled 52 prisoners from the country. 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 the beginning of Nikolai Statkevich's sentence in Hluboka colony, the leader of the Belarusian opposition has been kept in the harshest conditions: kept in solitary confinement in dangerous conditions. It became known that Mikalai Statkevich had contracted COVID-19 several times during his imprisonment.