Alexander Lukashenko was not meant to release people from prison, but to abolish sanctions," said TVN24 vice president of the Belarusian opposition cabinet Paweł Latuszko. prof. Monika Płatek of the University of Warsaw pointed out that erstwhile the Belarusian dictator had previously released a group of political prisoners, he stopped others after a while. According to her, we gotta observe "if we don't have a repeat.".