Jan. 6 suspect becomes refugee in Belarus

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Belarus has granted asylum to a suspect in the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill, according to a Belarusian state-run news source.

Evan Neumann, 49, claims he faced political persecution in the United States and has “mixed feelings” about his exile in Belarus, which allotted him the right to stay in the country “indefinitely,” according to Belarus’s BelTA.

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