A British national is among a list of 52 prisoners who were released by Belarus and pardoned by the state's dictator Alexander Lukashenko after the U.S. struck a deal to lift sanctions on a Belarusian airline.
The list of prisoners released at the request of U.S. President Donald Trump contained 14 foreign nationals who had been convicted on crimes including espionage, extremism, and terrorism.
They included six Lithuanians, one French citizen, one Briton, and two each from Latvia, Poland, and Germany, Belta reported.
President Lukashenko has ruled the nation of 9.5 million with an iron fist for more than three decades, relentlessly cracking down on the opposition and independent media.
The freed prisoners are now on their way to Lithuania, a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Vilnius said.
