Lukashenko releasing 15 other prisoners on Belarus Options on Reuters

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(Reuters) -Mopsill of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko holds 15 prisoners on Friday in which government’s goal, two days intended to expand his 31-year-old government .

Lukasko, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is assured that you will win seven-year-old season on Sunday.

Government’s media said Lukashenko held eight people who were guilty of extremes and seven drug violence. Did not give nouns.

The deported opposition says Sunday preferences is a precaution because all the principal critics have been imprisoned or forced to escape and is banned.

An Eu, An Eu, Anitta Hipper, told journalism: “This is completely demolic exercise. The preferences are completely unique. Who will win. “

Belarus this week accused European politicians by meditating with disregarding elections before it happens.

Lukashenko, 70 years of age, faced four other candidates, but none produced a serious challenge or criticism. He said he was too busy to keep the election campaign report, but you gave delight in the diarrhea this week by declaring the pension to go up 10% from Feb. 1.

Political critics say that an experimental leader is hopeful to use the premiums and contracted groups in the Western Relationships, which includes power belus and support For the Russian War in Ukraine.

His efforts is very faster, saying, as he considers the opportunity of peace conversations in the Ukrainian year and he is trying to get the benefits of his and Belarus if the war ends.

Spelterings followed in 2020 elections

Many complaint almost dreamed of Lukasko government after last 2020 choices, when western strokes for wrongs and stopped their candidate.

He used his security materials to eliminate the protest, treating tens of thousands of people.

Since then, EU and the United States refused to welcome him as an acceptable leader of Belarus. You deny the electoral fraud and say that they are the people who have chosen to keep him rule.

Lukashenko, when talking with a meeting of many people in Minsk on Friday, he says that the people in which the protest should not follow these choices.

“We are about suicide, let’s open about this,” Lukashenko told the meeting with a video on the Government Building Netly Web BELTA website.

“… we can’t repeat what happened in 2020.”

A group of human rights in ViasnA, withholding Belarus as an extreme organization, says there are some 1,250 political inmates, even after the release of more than 250 years. Many released were ill, old or nearing the end of their judgment.

Lukashenko denies that there are political prisoners.

Tsikhanouskaya, captivity’s head, told Reusers in a conversation this week so Lukashenko played “his ordinary” hoping for western rewards.

“That in democracy in democracy you call choices is empty in this event in Belarus. Because it is usually like a traditional tradition,” he said so.

In street conversations in the capital Minsk, residents responded carefully when asked what they expect from the election.

“It’s the same before, as it was always happening. What can you think about?” Said a woman, who refused to declare his name.