It was valid until 2030.
"And I, naively, was once again counting on having a decent leeway until 2030: either the donkey would die, or the padishah would die. I literally just barely managed to get a new one at the beginning of summer 2020. I wonder, if someone hadn't been the first to take the initiative to check the authenticity of the blue book — would they have just kept silent? Probably. True, there is also a third option in this series — the passport holder himself will pass away. But still, I want to relegate the latter to the realm of theory, there are too many unresolved gestalts specifically in my homeland..."
"To be honest, when news emerged starting with the autumn batch that some "exchanged" prisoners were released without passports, it even became awkward to worry that in our first relatively massive, summer group, only court sentences, appeals, and letters from relatives were taken away. As it turned out, this subsequently became a common occurrence for all "superfluous" people in their own country. But to cause trouble post-factum by annulling valid documents — that's a new kind of perversion, which in an advanced century looks like an echo of crippled obscurantism. If not according to the laws — then in everything," wrote Ihar Karnei on his Facebook.
Ihar Karnei was released on June 21 as part of a group of 14 political prisoners and taken to Vilnius.
Today it became known that Ales Bialiatski's passport was annulled.
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