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Personally for pardoning him. we cannot verify under what conditions he made this statement. to remind you, roman, former editor—in—cheif of belarusian opposition media nehta, was arrested in 2021, after his ryanairflight was forced to land in minsk. last month, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for offences including inciting terrorism, organising mass disturbances and slandering belarusian president alexander lukashenko. earlier i have asked bbc russian's sergei goryashko whether we can trust roman's statement. i mean, earlier there were not only suggestions that he has been spea...