The daughter of a leading Belarusian opposition figure says her father has been released from prison.
Alexander Kozulin was arrested in 2006 during a protest challenging the re-election of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko and later sentenced to 5 1/2 years in a high-security prison. Washington welcomed the move as a positive step towards improving the relationship between the West and Belarus. In 2005 US President George W. Bush described Belarus as "the last remaining dictatorship in Europe."
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