{"id":533374,"date":"2026-04-13T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=533374"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:06:21","slug":"statkevich-s-passport-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/statkevich-s-passport-found","title":{"rendered":"Statkevich\u2019s Passport \u201cFound\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mikalai Statkevich<\/b><\/strong> said on his Telegram channel that his passport had been \u201cfound.\u201d It was discovered at Minsk detention center No. 1. The politician is banned from leaving Belarus.<\/p>\n

“At last, it was possible to find my passport. For some reason, it turned up in Minsk \u2014 in Detention Center No. 1. Along with the passport, my prison belongings were also found, including the \u2018court\u2019 sentence and the decision of the \u2018appeal instance.\u2019 Interesting documents for future researchers or investigators. There is also a \u2018court\u2019 ruling banning me from leaving the country and \u2014 horror of horrors! \u2014 visiting casinos”<\/i><\/em>, Statkevich said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mikalai Statkevich was sentenced in 2021 in the \u201cTsikhanouski case\u201d to 14 years in prison.<\/p>\n

In September 2025, he was among 52 political prisoners who were to be taken to Lithuania.<\/p>\n

However, he got off the bus and refused to leave Belarus. Statkevich spent several hours between two border checkpoints. He was eventually taken away from the border by masked men. For a long time, his whereabouts were unknown. Later, reports emerged that he was being held in prison in Hlybokaye. Lukashenka publicly confirmed that Statkevich had been returned to prison. He was released again on February 19.<\/p>\n

A month before that, the political prisoner had suffered a stroke and had impaired speech. Statkevich was released without documents.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mikalai Statkevich’s Telegram channel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mikalai Statkevich said on his Telegram channel that his passport had been \u201cfound.\u201d It was discovered at Minsk detention center No. 1. The politician is banned from leaving Belarus. “At last, it was possible to find my passport. For some reason, it turned up in Minsk \u2014 in Detention Center No. 1. Along with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":519175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69dca4016342c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Statkevich\u2019s Passport \u201cFound\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533374","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=533374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}