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The young activism legend leaves the capital city to stay with his father to avoid ending up in a 'detox facility' ahead of the presidential polls.
Pavel Vinahradau's relatives gathered near the jail in Minsk to meet him as scheduled at 10 a.m. but the activist did not walk out free.
Rights defenders in Belarus say that arbitrary preventive detention of activists has become a means of political persecution.
The opposition activist has spent more than 200 days in jail over the past two years.
The leader of Zmena youth pressure group was arrested on October 2 on administrative offense charges.
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