Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has 'unilaterally' freed Anastassia Nuhfer, an American woman detained in early December 2024, according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. This move comes amidst a wave of prisoner releases by Lukashenko and follows Sunday's controversial election widely condemned as a sham by the international community.
Belarus ian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks to the media after voting in presidential elections in Minsk, Belarus , Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. has “unilaterally” freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as the Kremlin-allied country heldRubio’s post on the X social network identified the U.S. citizen as Anastassia Nuhfer. It said she was detained during former President Joe Biden’s tenure, but did not specify when or why.
The U.S. State Department said later on Sunday that Nuhfer was detained in early December 2024. It said that earlier this month, a consular officer from Washington was granted rare access to an American detainee in Belarus. Nuhfer’s release took the public and even Belarusian activists by surprise. Her name hadn’t been publicly released and hadn’t featured on lists of political prisoners.
Lukashenko’s support for the war in Ukraine has led to the rupture of Belarus’ ties with the U.S. and the EU, ending his gamesmanship of using the West to try to win more subsidies from the Kremlin.
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