{"id":169772,"date":"2025-12-27T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/169772\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"former-prisoner-sieviaryniec-reunites-with-family-in-vilnius","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/169772\/","title":{"rendered":"Former prisoner Sieviaryniec reunites with family in Vilnius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Pavie\u0142 Sieviaryniec with family in Vilnius\n <\/div>\n \n
\n (Sieviaryniec's Telegram channel)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

December 27, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Opposition politician Pavie\u0142 Sieviaryniec, who was released on December 13 and taken to Lithuania, described his forced deportation from Belarus as a lawless practice in a video posted on his new Telegram channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0“I believe that we will definitely return and embrace each other on our native soil,” he said in a video shot in Vilnius, where he reunited with his wife and son. \u201cI spoke Belarusian all the time, did not sign a petition for clemency and did not admit guilt,\u201d said the politician who was held behind bars for five and a half years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seviaryniec was arrested in June 2020 in the run-up to the presidential election, which he used to promote his political agenda. In May 2021, he was given seven years in prison on charges of preparing mass riots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, authorities blacklisted him as a person \u201cinvolved in extremist activities\u201d and transferred him from a penal colony to prison. He and the other 122 designated political prisoners were freed following the meeting between Aleksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and John Coale, US special envoy to Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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