Here is a 2018 paper, A Note on One-dimensional Varieties Over the Complex p-adic Field, that still lists the "full" statement as a conjecture; "half" of the statement, meaning that at least $\lfloor N/2\rfloor$ of the exponents are independent, has been proven by Nesterenko.
Carlo Beenakker
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