VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarus has freed 52 prisoners, including six Lithuanians, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on X.

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

“I am deeply grateful to the United States and personally to President @realDonaldTrump for their continued efforts to free political prisoners. 52 is a lot. A great many. Yet more than 1,000 political prisoners still remain in Belarusian prisons and we cannot stop until they see freedom!” Nauseda wrote Thursday.

Lukashenko has ruled the nation of 9.5 million with an iron fist for more than three decades, relentlessly cracking down on the opposition and independent media.

But his rule was challenged in the aftermath of B

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