After a year spent in custody in Serbia, Belarusian journalist and activist Andrej Gnyot is now free and is in the territory of the European Union
Belarusian activist and journalist Andrej Gnjot, who was detained in Serbia for a year, is now free and is in the territory of the EU.
Andrej Gnjot sent a press release stating that he is now in the territory EU.
"I am very grateful to my lawyers ... human rights organizations, media and journalists, my friends and relatives ... and thousands of people who fought for my life. My story is a Hollywood movie... Please give me some time to get used to freedom and security, which I haven't had in a very long time. In the coming days, I will invite you all to a press conference. I love you all! We won!", Gnjot wrote in the announcement.
An indictment was brought against Andrej Gnjot in Minsk for tax evasion. At the end of October 2023, he was arrested at the Belgrade airport, according to an Interpol warrant issued by Belarus, but it has since been canceled.
He spent seven months in the Central Prison in Belgrade, and in June of this year he was transferred to house arrest.
Gnjot claims that the process against him in Belarus is rigged and that it is a matter of political persecution because of his activism against the Belarusian regime.
There are currently around 1.400 political prisoners in prisons across Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko has been in power in that country since 1994, whose victory in the 2020 presidential elections was not recognized by the EU.
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