Belarus has released jailed veteran opposition politician Mikola Statkevich, who refused to go into exile last year in a US-brokered prisoner release. The 69-year-old was now at home and recovering from a stroke which had affected his speech, his wife Marina Adamovich said. Statkevich spent more than five years behind bars after receiving a 14-year sentence for organising what the authorities called "mass riots" in 2020-21. He had run unsuccessfully against Alexander Lukashenko in a 2010