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Thank you all so much for your support and help, friends, I&#8217;m happy to have you, all of you!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lithuanian authorities are concerned about national security but any decision can be challenged in court in a democratic state, said BySol&#8217;s head Andrej Stry\u017eak. All Belarusians should take advantage of it, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casanueva had lived in Belarus since the early 1990s and worked as a designer. Authorities revoked his residence permit after he had been sentenced to 15 days in jail in 2020. He had spent a year in custody awaiting deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December 2021, authorities put him on a Moscow-bound flight. BySol helped him to travel to Lithuania where he applied for political asylum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, the Lithuanian migration service rejected his request, saying he could be safe in Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casanueva\u2019s three children remain in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 27,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0A court in Lithuania annulled the migration authority\u2019s deportation order against Cuban national Roberto Casanueva, persecuted in Belarus for participation in 2020 postelection protests, the BySol Solidarity Foundation reported. BySol\u2019s fundraiser helped him cover the legal fees for the appeal. &#8220;It feels like life goes on and the journey continues,&#8221; Casanueva said. &#8220;All that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-2899","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lithuanian court overturns deportation of Cuban persecuted in Belarus over 2020 protests | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 27,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0A court in Lithuania annulled the migration authority\u2019s deportation order against Cuban national Roberto Casanueva, persecuted in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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