VILNIUS – Belarus has freed 52 prisoners, and they have crossed into Lithuania, the Lithuanian president said Thursday.

Among those released were 14 foreigners — six Lithuanians, two Latvians, two Poles, two Germans, one French national and one U.K. national — according to the Belarusian presidency's press service.

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In June, Belarus freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski , a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, and 13 others following a rare visit by a senior envoy from the Trump administration.

Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to Belarus’ authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, about the release of more prisoners.

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