Cameroon footballer released from Belarus jail

Gui Fransois Tukam, the goalkeeper of Nrowegian futsal side IOF, yesterday reached Spain after he was finally released from a detention center in Minsk, according to the letter from his girlfriend that she sent to the Vyasna human rights center. The girlfriend wrote that the footballer had arrived in their house in Valencia. She also thanked human rights activists in Minsk who were helping the man when he was kept in detention.

Euroradio reported earlier the footballers was detained on June 1 at the Minsk airport on suspicion of passport forgery. However, it remains unclear when the Cameroonian was tried by a court and how he paid a fine before deportation.