Belarusian journalist Kuznechyk released from prison, Tsikhanouskaya adviser says

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Belarusian journalist Andrei Kuznechyk was released from prison in his home country on Wednesday and has been reunited with his family in Lithuania, said Franak Viacorka, the chief political adviser to Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

"Andrei spent over three years behind bars as a political prisoner," Viacorka said in a post on social media X.

(Reporting by Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans, writing by Terje Solsvik, editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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