{"id":502863,"date":"2025-12-15T16:28:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=502863"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:48:10","slug":"gitanas-nauseda-meets-with-ales-bialiatski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/gitanas-nauseda-meets-with-ales-bialiatski","title":{"rendered":"Gitanas Naus\u0117da Meets With Ales Bialiatski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian President <strong>Gitanas Naus\u0117da<\/strong> met with Nobel Prize laureate, human rights defender, and former political prisoner <strong>Ales Bialiatski<\/strong>\u00a0on December 15, the Lithuanian presidential press service reported.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe received the news that after many years of unjust imprisonment you are finally free with great relief. Your resilience, moral strength, and unwavering commitment to human dignity \u2014 even in the darkest of times \u2014 inspire us all,\u201d<\/i> Naus\u0117da said.<\/p>\n<p>Naus\u0117da stressed that Lithuania would continue to support US efforts aimed at securing the release of all political prisoners in Belarus. He said Belarus must end repression and stop supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe also consistently emphasize that the Belarusian regime must end all political repression and refrain from launching new ones, that democratic, free, and fair elections must be held in Belarus, and that any support by the Lukashenka regime for Russia\u2019s aggressive war against Ukraine must cease,\u201d<\/i> the Lithuanian president said.<\/p>\n<p>Naus\u0117da also noted that by staging hybrid attacks using weather balloons, the Lukashenka regime is attempting to break out of international isolation, gain legitimacy, and evade sanctions. He stressed that Lithuania would not give in to blackmail and would continue to support Belarus\u2019s democratic opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was among the 123 political prisoners \u201cpardoned\u201d on December 13 and was taken out of Belarus to Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus\u0117da met with Nobel Prize laureate, human rights defender, and former political prisoner Ales Bialiatski\u00a0on December 15, the Lithuanian presidential press service reported. \u201cWe received the news that after many years of unjust imprisonment you are finally free with great relief. Your resilience, moral strength, and unwavering commitment to human dignity \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":502862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69401fb43d2d6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Gitanas Naus\u0117da Meets With Ales Bialiatski"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}