Today Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, a political prisoner, has been released under the Supreme Court decision.

Today a consideration of case upon cassational appeal of the former deputy editor-in-chief of Zhoda newspaper Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou has taken place in the Supreme Court of Belarus. Dzvizhkou had been sentenced to three years of imprisonment for publishing the Prophet Mohammed cartoons.

Considering the exceptional circumstances (the journalist has an elderly mother), the Supreme Court altered the decision of Minsk city court, and commuted the sentence from three years to three months of imprisonment. As said by lawyer Maya Alyaksandrava, today Zdzvizhkou is to be released.